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First Sit In
Historic lunch counter sit-inA sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. Following the Oklahoma City sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation. -
Boynton vs Virginia
Court Case Bruce Boynton boarded a bus on his way home to Selma, Alabama . During a break at a bus terminal in Richmond, Virginia, Boynton entered a “whites only” restaurant where he was refused service and then ordered to eat at an establishment for black travelers and then arrested after refusing to comply. The court Case brought before the supreme court. He won and enacted prohibiting racial discrimination in interstate commerce, -
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Freedom Riders Fight Segregation
Freedom Riders Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
Peace Corps Founded
Peace CorpThe stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. -
Engel vs Vitale
Engel vs VitaleSupreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
Integration of Ole Mis James Meredith became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi.The integration cause riots to break out zt the school. Two people died -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile CrisisCuba was found to be building nuclear missile sites. Fearing a nuclear attack Kennedy set up a naval blockade to stop Cuba from receiving additional military supplies. He demanded the removal and destruction of the missiles and the sites. Cuba complied but only after the U.S. signed a pledge stating they would not invade cuba -
Alabama Civil Rights Marches
Civil Rights MarchesMarches held in Bermingham and led by Marting Luther King Jr. used to bring attention to integration efforts. Marchers were brutally attacked with fire hoses and police dogs. -
Abington vs Schempp
was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondeAbington vs Shempp Edward Schempp, and declared school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools in the United States to be unconstitutional. -
March on Washington
I have a dreamOne of the largest political rallies for human rights in the United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. An estimate 200,000- 300,000 people participated. -
Kennedy Assasinated
While on a political trip to Texas Kennedy was shot once in the throat, once in the upper back, with the fatal shot hitting him in the head. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but was killed himself on Nov 24, by Jack Ruth. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil rights actOutlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
Economic Opportunity Act
Opportunity actAuthorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. -
Malcom X Assasinated
Malcom X , Civil Rights leader, was gunned down in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom by three gunmen. -
Medicare & Medicaid
MedicareVoting Rights ActGuarantees access to health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older who have worked and paid into the system, and younger people with disabilities -
Voting Rights Act
Act prohibitting discrimination in voting. -
Mass Draft Protests
Draft BurningBy 1966 under fifty percent, and dropping, of United States Citizens agreed with the war in Vietnam. Public anti draft protests were held all over the country. They include draft card burnings and marches. -
Black Panther Party Organized
Black Panthers The Blac Panther Party was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
Thurgood Marshal elected Supreme Court Justice
Thurgod President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 30, 1967. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African American. -
First Heart Transplant
Transplant Christiaan Barnard performed the first transplant on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town, South Africa. -
MLK Assasinated
King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment. King was shot on his second floor balconey at the Lorraine Motel. James Earl Ray later confessed. -
Zodiac Killer Strikes
The Zodiac killer killed seven people from 1968 into the early 70s. The killer became famous from his taunting letters to police containing ciphers. His identity remains unknown. -
First Man on the Moon
man on the moon>WoodStock</a>Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. The event was broadcasted on live television for the world to watch. -
Wood Stock
WoodstockHeld at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm, in New York, Wood Stock was a music festival that changed the history of Rock and Roll. The festival was 3 days long and over 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 young people.
