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Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African American to play major league baseball.
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President Truman orders the Army to be desegregated
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The United States and seven other countries form the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). The goal of SEATO was to obtain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
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The French surrender to Viet Minh troops, after suffering 15,000 casualties.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger, causing the city of Montgomery, Alabama to organize a year-long bus boycott.
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100 southern members of congress endorsed ¨The Southern Manifesto,¨ to oppose the Brown ruling by ¨lawful means.¨
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Nine African American students are refused entry into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to escort the students while being harassed.
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NLF guerilla fighters, or Vietcongs, were launched to assassinate government officials, and destroy roads & bridges.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization, with Martin Luther King Jr. as president.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which established the United States Civil Rights Commision permission to investigate civil rights.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed for research of aerospace research
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Fidel Castro is determined to nationalize land held by the US citizens, enforce radical reform measures, and accept Soviet economic and military aid.
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White waitress refuses to serve African American students at a restaurant. As a way of protest, the students sat at the lunch counter until closing time, known as a “sit in.”
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CORE stages a “free ride” for African Americans to ride in buses from Washington, DC to New Orleans. However, the trip ended in tragedy in Alabama when one of the buses were firebombed by segregationists.
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The Peace Corps was created to assist developing countries in need.
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A CIA-led force of Cuban exiles attacked Cuba in the ¨Bay of Pigs¨ invasion, but it was very mismanaged.
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The Berlin Wall is built, dividing Germany as West Germany and East Germany
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James Meredith is the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi
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US Intelligence discovers that the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, known as the ¨Cuban Missile Crisis.
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John Glenn is the first American astronaut to orbit Earth
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The Special Olympics are the largest sports for children with intellectual and physical disabilites
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The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which ends above ground nuclear tests.
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Martin Luther King gives his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, during the March on Washington.
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The Freedom Summer campaign takes place, where 1,000 volunteers of black & white students go to Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed. It authorized the President ¨to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggresion.¨
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Beatlemania hits America, after The Bealtes official US debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964.
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Heavily armed state troopers attack a line of marching protesters trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. This day would later be remembered as ¨Bloody Sunday.¨
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Heavily armed state troopers attack a line of marching protesters trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. This day would later be remembered as ¨Bloody Sunday.¨
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The Black Panthers organize armed armed patrols in urban neighborhoods and protect people from police abuse. The Black Panthers wore their hair in ¨afros¨ to be referred other than ¨black¨ or ¨negro.¨
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Richard Nixon is elected as the 37th President of the United States
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Martin Luther King is fatally shot while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon
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Tinker vs. Des Moines had students protesting rights for symbolic speech in schools.
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The first Wood Stock Music Festival ran on August 15th-18th, where they played music for peace
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is formed to protect the environment signed by President Nixon on July 9, 1970.
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The 26th Amendment was signed, giving people 18+ the right to vote
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Title IX is passed as a civil rights law stating: ¨No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.¨
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The Clean Water Act is signed. The goal of the Clean Water Act is to restore the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation´s waters.
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The Endangered Species Act was signed to provide protection for threatened and endangered wildlife.
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Roe vs Wade was a ruling that ruled a fundamental ¨right to privacy.¨
