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Last battle of Vietnam for French. Prompted U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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Supreme Court declares segregated schools unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, kicks off Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The Supreme Court declares seperate-but-equal laws unconstitutional.
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Arkansas governor Faubus blocks desegregation of Little Rock High School, Eisenhower forced to send troops.
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Students in North Carolina organize sit-in lunches, SNCC formed.
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An African-American man named James Meredith tries to register at the University of Mississippi; riots begin and force Kennedy to send troops.
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After leading protests in Birmingham, MLK is arrested and jailed, where he writes his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
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Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
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A Vietnamese attack on a base at Pleiku leaves 8 dead and more than 100 wounded.
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President Johnson announces North Vietnamese fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Police attack marchers at a voting rights march led by King in Selma, called "Bloody Sunday".
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President Johnson begins a sustained bomging campaign against North Vietnam.
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At the University of Michigan students and faculty joined together in a teach-in to discuss issues surrounding the war and their reasons for opposing it.
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American bombings kill as many as 220,000 Vietnamese.
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Prohibited discrimination against blacks and women, ended racial descrimination in schools.
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
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Vietcong launch a massive surprise attack aginst American airbases in South Vietnam.
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In a 1968 poll, 53% of participants favored stronger military action in Vietnam, 24% wanted to end the war.
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Nixon announces the withdrawal of 25,000 soldiers.
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Henry Kissinger enters into secret negotiations with North Vietnam's negotiatior, Le Duc Tho.
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American officials leave Vietnam.
