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French were defeated by the NVA.
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Declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger, and the city police arrested her. This sparked the civil rights movement.
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Nine black students were allowed to enter an all white high school, along with national guards for protection.
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Kennedy ordered more aid for the South Vietnamese for the was with new equipment and personnel.
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American troops first enter South Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in Birmingham Alabama, and writes a letter to the local priests.
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Gave women equal pay among men counterparts.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his most famous speech at the LIncoln Memorial.
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The resolution gave President Johnson the power to do anything in Southeast Asia.
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President Johnson allows Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing offensive, to stop North Vietnam.
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Southern blacks are able to vote in a more convient matter.
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The Supreme Court ruled that interracial marriage is constitutional.
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Signed by Johnson to keep discimination out of real esatate.
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President Nixon meets with South Vietnam's president, nguyen Van Thieu. He announces that 25,000 soldiers will be withdrawn.
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South Vietnam attacks into Cambodia to chase after Vietcong militia.
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Supreme Court ruled busing was not to be segregated.
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North Vietcong militia advanced towards the City of Hue to gain a strategic placing in their offensive, but the city was well defended and the NVA were pushed back.
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All warring nations that were involved in Vietnam and Southeast Asia signed a cease fire.
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Vietcong members blew holes in outer perimeter and ransacked the embassy.