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Segregation was constitutional as long as the facilities for black and white were "separate but equal"
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Lyndon B. Johnson elected President
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Core was founded
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President Roosevelt banned discrimination
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Gunnar Myrdals published and American Dilemma
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Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Truman ordered desegregation of the military
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Greatest disappointment was the NAACP's failure
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Beat movement rejected materialism and focused on personal finance.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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Rosa Parks got arrested
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Civil Rights Act got passed
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Supreme Court was unconstitutional for segregated buses
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SCLC was founded
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Vietcong formed National Liberation Front
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9 students went to a white school in Little Rock
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Castro overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista
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James Lawson delivered an inspiring speech
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CIA planned invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro
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Berlin wall was built
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SNCC was established
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Hippies Emerged
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Segregation was illegal
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Black college students sat in at a Woolworth's lunch counter
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Peace Corps was created
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U.S. dropped Agent Orange
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Meredith won court case for desegregation
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John Glean was the first American to orbit earth
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham jail
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James Meredith became the first black student to enroll and graduate at the University of Mississippi.
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Government was forced to let black students into Alabama
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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Kennedy was assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was powers are passed to president
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Malcolm X formed his own organization
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Economic Opportunity Act created job corps to train young men and women to work and give them a head start
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Major Campaign known as freedom summer- SNCC march for voting registry
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Title VII Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on basis of sex
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President Johnson Dramatically altered US role in Vietnam War
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Immigration and Nationality Act altered Americas quota system; Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe
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Medicare and medicaid low income and senior/ disabled insurance
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U.S. bombed Vietnam
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Congress passed the Voting Rights Act
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty," the act has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the United States Congress
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Bloody Sunday
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The term "Black power" arose
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The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
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Was enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety.
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Refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radio logical characteristics of water. It is a measure of the condition of water relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose.
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Congress and eventually most of the Nation divided into 2 camps know as the Hawks and Doves
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A comprehensive Federal law that regulates all sources of air emissions. The 1970 CAA authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards to protect public health and the environment.
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2,000 people flocked to Haight, Ashbury and San Francisco
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John F. Kennedy was killed
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Martin Luther King Jr. was killed
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American forces searched for enemy troops in a village called My Lai
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America was the first to land on the moon "Yay we win"
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This gave the students free speech
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The war expanded to Cambodia
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This Massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people women, children and old men in the village of My Lai
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Allowed you to vote when you are 18
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War Powers Act is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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United States, North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong all signed the Paris Peace Accords
