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1960s Timeline
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Warren Court
The new supreme court judge Earl Warren was appointed into office and was right away stuck with problems concerning controversial court rulings and was intended to make legislative reforms. -
France is Defeated
France is defeated by the Vietminh at the Dien Bien Phu the reason for this defeat was the fact that France was highly outnumbered bu the Vietminh. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Linda Brown contested against the education in schools that it was not fair that schools must be segregated, on this date Linda won the case and schools become integrated for the first time. -
Geneva Conference
France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Great Britain, Laos, and China all met in Geneva, Switzerland to work out a peace agreement -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On this day a woman by the name of Rosa Parks sat down on a bus not knowing she would be forced to give up her seat for a white man, she refused and was arrested. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine students of African American descent were on their way to school became beaten and denied acess into the school by the Gaurd. -
Kennedy Becomes President
On this dau John F. Kennedy becomes inaugurated as America's president. -
Bay of Pigs
The CIA is training 1,500 Cuban exiles to overthrow communist dictator Fidel Castro. They invaded Cuba in attempt to throw out Castro. -
The Freedom Rides
African American freedom riders were riding the buses to protest the civil rights movement they were continually harassed and hazed by white riders. -
Vienna Conference
Today the Vienne Conference was held on Vienna, Austria between Kennedy and Kruschev, they discussed international affairs in attempt to ease tensions with the Soviet Union -
The Albany Movement
Civil rights protesters were nonviolently protesting to gai ncivil rights 500 plus African Americans were arrested and jailed in Albany, Georgia. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment was put into works by taking away polling taxes allowing blacks a better chance of being able to vote mainly in the southern states. -
The Birmingham Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama for nonviolent protesting civil rights. Many African Americans were tackled by dogs and sprayed by high pressure fire hoses. -
Kennedy Assasination
Preident Kennedy was shot in the head by a standerby on the top of a building in Dallas, Texas. -
Johnson Becomes President
President Lyndon B. Johson was sworn into presidency the date that Kennedy was shot, he was sworn into presidency on the airplane with Jackie Kennedy standing by in her bloodstained clothes. -
War on Poverty
Lyndon B Johnson states that he will begin a war against poverty allowing new jobs to be created and to bring those out of poverty. -
USS Maddox Attacked
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The Great Society
Johnson allows domestic programs to be formed allowing Medicaid, and Medicare to become available to those not as fortunate. -
The Selma March
Civil rights marchers began to march over Edmund Peltus Bridge to get media attention allowing the civil rights movement to become more known. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S airforce bomb campaigned over North Vietnam to weaken the enemys will and ability to fight. -
SDS Formed
Students that opposed the war in vietnam formed the SDS which were antiwar demonstrations in Washington D.C they wanted to end to war -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King jr., James Farmer and many other civil rights activists watched outside Washington D.C as the voting rights act of 1965 was signed giving african americans the rights to vote -
March Against Fear
Stokely Carmichael marched for the his civil rights in Greenwood, Mississippi he was arrested and jailed. -
Black Panther Party
Huey Newton, and Boldey Seale founded a new group in Oakland, California for African American liberation. -
NVA & Vietcong Troops Strike
NVA & Vietcong troops strike fire on an isolated US military base to draw the US away from urban areas at the Khe Sahn. -
Assasination of King
In Memphis Tennessee Martin Luther King jr was assasinated, the assasinators plans was to slow or stop the civil rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act which banned discrimination in housing. -
Poor Peoples Campaign
Ralph Abernathy led a campaign in Washington D.C to continue the movement for King it continued King's legacy and allowed the movement to move forward in progress.
