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The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) is formed in Avon, Connecticut.
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All agreed that there is a need for an inependent Africa.
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The Hill-Burton Act became a law in the United States providing fedral grants to states for the construction of hospitals.
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The National Mental Health Foundation was founded by individuals who served in WWII.
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The Paralyzed Veterans of America foundation is formed.
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T. R. Mekonnen starts the Pan Afrianist journal in London
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Mandella elected secretary of the ANC Youth League.
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Communism spreads to Czechoslovakia. This is not good for those who are trying to contain communism
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President Truman makes equality for all in the armed fores
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Russia tested its first atomic bomb
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THe ANC promotes violent acts and covial disobedience among citizens
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Muslim Brotherhood was a Radical Muslim group who Qutub influenced.
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This marks the start of the Korean War.
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John Patrick O'Neill os the FBI agent who dedicated his life to finding Osama bin Laden. He was killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Egypt's government was overthrown by the nationalist Free Officers Movement headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Qutb and other Brotherhood members orchestrated a plot to assassinate the Egyptian president
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Vietnam splits at 17th parallel.
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A minister who fought for African American rights similar to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Character that states that South Africa is owned by te people who live there no matter waht their skin color is.
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus.
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Mandela and 150 other people were arrested and charged with treason, they were later found not guilty
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Osama bin Laden will later become a popular name among Islamic Extremists.
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Desegregation of little Rock High School in Arkansas.
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Military actions by the communist party takes place in vietnam
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Adopts name Pand African Congress (PAC) and first committee is elected.
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The Vietcong is formed
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The leader of the Pan African Freedom Movement dies.
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Four students sit-in at a department stores segregated lunch counter.
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Police shoot at peaceful protesters fighting against laws put forth by the PAC. 69 people were shot, most were shot in the back.
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The government arrested 18,000 people and simotaniiously banned the ANC and other liberation movvements.
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South Africa creates a state of emergency and starts detaining citizens.
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee organized many sit-ins. They aligning with the Black Panther Party (BPP).
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President Kennedy increases U.S. military aid to South Vietnam.
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Student actavists leave Washington D.C. on a bus to test desegregation on interstate bus systems.
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
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Robert Sobukwe writes a letter appointing Potlako Leballo to act as president of the PAC.
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First African American student enrolled in University of Mississippi.
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Justice H. Snyman appointed to head the Commission of Inquiry into the 1962 Paarl Revolt begins collecting evidence through hearings.
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PAC lauches an attack on the South African Government
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Two African American students are admitted into the schools summer session.
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Martin Luther King Jr. can be included in counterculture because he did not conform with everyone else and stood out to make a change.
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President John F. Kennedy assasinated in Texas while treveling in a motorcade.
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Medicare and Medicaid are formed by the Social Security ammendments
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: U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
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The formation of the Students for a Democratic Society.
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Thousands of Hippies met in San Francisco.
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A representation of people who protested for freedom
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Shot by a sniper while on his second floor balcony in Tennessee.
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A strike that took place in France the almost caused the fall of the french Government.
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The woodstock festival was a festival full of counterculture hippies.
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There was also counterculturalism in Russia which included the increase in explicit langiage, drugs and alcohol use.
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The Urban Mass Transportation Act became law, and it required all new American mass transit vehicles be equipped with wheelchair lifts.
