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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights campaign targeting political injustice of racial segregation on public transportation.
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JFK was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1961. Kennedy was also the first Roman Catholic to take office.
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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. recited his most popular speech titled "I have a dream". The gathering was on, and still one of today's largest political rally.
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In 1962, the U.S. marines were confronted by North Vietnam forces who fired shots from their torpedo boats. This is believed to be the reason why the United States finally involved themselves in the war.
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The first organization for feminists was created by Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, and Muriel Fox
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The African American civil rights leader was assassinated at the age of 39 in a hotel in Memphis Tennessee. The assassin was named James Earl Ray.
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In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first space satellite named "Sputnik". Kennedy was stunned by their advancement in technology.
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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald.
