A Time For Change

By BigManSam19

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  • Bill Russel Joined the NBA

    Bill Russel was drafted to the Atlanta Hawks but was traded to the Boston Celtics on draft night

  • Central High School integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Wilt Chamberlain joined the NBA

    Wilt Chamberlain was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors on March 31, 1959

  • John Kennedy elected

  • Wilt Chamberlain makes history

    Wilt grabbed 55 total rebounds against long time rival but great friend Bill Russel

  • Freedom Riders

  • Wilt Chamberlain makes history pt.2

    Wilt Chamberlain makes history pt.2

    Wilt scored 100pts against the New York Knicks

  • Rachel Carson writes "Silent Spring"

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • "The Feminine Mystique" is published

  • March on Washington

  • Assassination of John Kennedy

  • Lyndon Johnson re-elected to Presidency

  • Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson

  • Founding conference for NOW

  • OPEC oil embargo

  • Nixon becomes President

  • Assassination of Malcome X

  • March on Selma

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Riots in WATTS

  • Cesar Chavez and farm workers strike

  • TET Offensive

  • Massacre at My Lai

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Assassination of Robert Kennedy

  • Farwell Bill

    Farwell Bill

    Bill Russel retired the same day as he won his record setting 11 NBA championships

  • Man on the Moon

  • Woodstock

  • First Earth Day observed

  • Kent State Protesters killed

  • ERA passes Congress as a proposed amendent

  • SALT 1 summit

  • Watergate scandal

  • Title IX (sports) is passed

  • Roe vs. Wade passed

  • Wounded Knee and FBI clash

  • Nixon resigns and Ford becomes President