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French Forces in Dien Bien Phu surrender to the Vietminh, giving a practical end to revolution in Vietnam, giving the country it's freedom again.
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Supreme Court rules against "Seperate but Free" laws pertaining to primary and secondary education.
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A meeting of representatives from Vietnam, Cambodia, Great Britain, USA, USSR, Laos, China, and France to work out peace and arrange the future of Indochina.
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A year long campaign in Montgomery in which the majority of African Americans refused to utilize Montgomery busses after the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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Nine students are escorted by the 101st Airborn Division into Little Rock's Little Rock Central High.
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Civil Rights Activists "sit in" at a store counter in Greensboro, NC, in protest of Segregation and Discrimination against blacks at such venues.
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President elect John F. Kennedy is given a narrow win for president, making him the youngest president elect in US history.
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An attempt by the US government to spark revolution in Cuba by using Cuban exiles.
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President Kennedy gives a renoun speech proclaiming the US's goal to reach to moon by the end of the 1960s.
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SDS, students for a Democratic Society, is formed n opposition against the Vietnam War
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the globe kicking the Space race against the USSR into high gear.
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James Meredith, an African American, attempted to enroll in UofM, but was not accepted. A federal court ruled that the university had rejected Meredith's application due to his ethnicity, and ordered admittence.
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A thirteen day conflict where a US U2 plane spotted missile buildup by the USSR in Cuba. Possibly the most tense moment of the Cold War.
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Pressident Kennedy is assassinated in Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, who had connections to the USSR and Cuba.
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LBJ signs the Civil RIghts Acts of 1964, officialy ending segregation, but not removing it from society, and gave a huge boost to the Civil Rights Movement.
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200 Volunteers dissapear after arriving in Mississippi to train and educate African American communities.
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Abolishes poll taxes, which harshly inhibited the African American community from equal representation in government.
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The destruction of the USS Maddox gives Johnson enough reason to declair war on the North Vietnamese.
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LBJ signs the Economic Opportunity Act which enacted several social programs to promote helth, education, etc. to those in poverty.
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Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up a donation table for CORE in a banned area. This lead to a huge protest against the selected police
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A bombing Campaign by the 2nd Air division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam.
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Approximately 600 African Americans march 54 miles across Edmund Petus Bridge to get to Selma on protest. MLK was absent.
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An act put forth by LBJ to enforce the fifteenth amendment and outlaw discriminatory voting practices and laws.
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An act put forth by LBJ which provided aid to those going into postsecondary schooling. Such aid includes financial aid in forms of scholarships and low interest loans.
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Crusade for Justice is founded by former boxer Rodolfo Gonzales, as he felt as though mainstream politics did little for latin america.
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Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, CA, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
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NOW is founded to figurehead the feminist movement to build woman's rights.
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MAYO is founded in San Antonio due to the feeling of powerlessness and the state of impoverishness in the Latino compunity.
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H. Rp Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as SNCC head and urged by FBI informants to take radical, violent, moves. This, among other things, caused SNCC to fall.
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The summer of 1967 became known as the "Summer of Love" as protests continuously go on over the war in Vietnam.
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Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission in response to rioting in Detroit.
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AIM is founded in Minneapolis with a focus on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty of Native cultures.
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US and South Vietnam start a major offensive against the northern Vietnam.
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Also known as the "Fair Housing Act", this act provided equal housing opportunities for all races and people. This act was signed by LBJ during the riots over MLK's assassination
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African American's Attend the Poor People's Campaign un Washington DC. Poor weather caused the campaign to be a disaster.
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US and South Vietnam continue their campaign against North Vietnam, including the Battle of Dai Do. Later, Vietcong atempt to invaid Siagon, but fail due to allied intel.
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Civil Rights Movement leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is Assassinated by James Earl Ray. Riots ensue.
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After Phase 2, Phase three of the Tet Offensive incluyded a major push into North Vietnam, leading to horrendous casualties by communist units by multiple missions.
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Nixon is elected over his ideals over Vietnimization and the "silent majority".
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Due to high influence by the media, the public starts to condemn the war in Vietnam.
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The first woodstock is held in Bethel, NY. Nearly 190,000 attend.
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Nixon loses widespread support when he decides to move troops into Cambodia.
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La Raza Unida Party founded to bring up the issue of Latino discrimination, and bring fourth the ideas of groups like MAYO to politics.
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Danial Ellsberg leaked papers from the pentagon to the press over the reason the US was in Vietnam, causing nearly all support for the war to be lost. NYT wins supreme court battle against US over legality.
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Supreme court votes in favor of a womans right to have an abortion, but must follow state laws pertaining to the regulation of abortion.
