1960s and public protests

By sydney_helget
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    Civil Rights Protest Movements

  • Vietnam War Begins

    Vietnam War begins

  • Minimum Wage Hike (Rises)

    Minimum wage is raised from $1 to $1.25

  • JFK wins presidency

    https://www.whitehousehistory.org/anti-war-protests-of-the-1960s-70s

  • Peace Corps

    JFK issues an executive order to establish the Peace Corps

  • Moon Project

    The President starts planning to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Truman makes an act saying that there can be no discrimination of color, sex, race or religion.

  • March on Washington

    Over 250,000 people march on Washington in a peaceful protest, Martin Luther King Junior gives the closing address
    (Civil Rights Movement)

  • JFK assassinated

    John F Kennedy is assassinated in Texas during a parade
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    Vietnam War Protests

    A series of anti war protests

  • Malcom X Assasinated

    Malcolm X (Civil Rights activist) assassinated during a rally

  • Voting Act of 1965

    President Johnson passed the act stating that there are no restrictions to vote and there could not be any literacy test issued to be able to vote

  • Selma March

  • Loving VS Virgina

    The court case that made interracial marriage legal

  • Vietnam War Ends