1960s

  • The lunch counter

    there was a Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins
    That inspired student-led demonstrations, it lasted five months three weeks, and 3 days
    The lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. Then it ended on July 25, 1960.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis

    The Soviet Union, the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the soviet UNion and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missile. He secretly met with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.
  • Kennedy assented

    Kennedy assented

    Kennedy was the 35th president of the U.S. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated him. Kennedy was shot 2 times that day. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Nellie when he was fatally shot by the nearby texas governor john Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie when he was fatally shot from the nearby texas school book depository by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine.
  • Voting rights

    The United States Senate passed the voting rights act of 1965. The long-delayed issue of voting rights had come to the forefront because of a voter registration drive launched by civil rights
  • National Organization for founded

    The National Organization for Women called for equal employment opportunities and equal pay for women. They also championed the legalization of abortion and the passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.
  • MLK assassinated

    MLK assassinated

    MLK was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, king was in the city to speak on his growing poor people’s campaign, and to support an economic protest by Black munitions workers