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States communism & capitalism were incompatible
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T. R. Mekonnen founds the Pan-Africanist Journal in London.
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Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
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Policy of apartheid (separateness) adopted when National Party (NP) takes power
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This action desegregates the mlitary.
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Group Areas Act passed to segregate blacks and whites. Communist Party banned. ANC responds with campaign of civil disobedience, led by Nelson Mandela.
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Senator Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests
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Soon positioned as the head of the Brotherhood’s propaganda department
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Returns from America
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Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Later becomes FBI cheif of counterterrorism
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Qutb wrote his most famous book, Malim if al-Tariq (Milestones).
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Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti established as the security force of the Soviet Union
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Rules segregation in public schools unconstitutional
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Leads to her arrest
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Martin Luther King, Jr. leads year long boycott
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Comprised of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles K. Steele and Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
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Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution
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Africanist groups meet and adopt the name an Africanist Congress. The leaders are then selected with Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe as president.
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The International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from the Olympic Movement due to the apartheid
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Cause similar nonviolent protest throughout the South.
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Apartheid requires blacks to carry passbooks, which contain personal information such as name, date of birth, and photos. When protestors show up at the Sharpeville police station without their passbooks, a riot breaks out and police kill 69 people.
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The Pan African Freedom Movement (PAFM) collapses after he, their leader, dies
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The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
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Creates loose morality due to the elimination of the risk of pregnancy
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National Liberation Front for South Vietnam
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Leaves the Commonwealth. Mandela heads ANC's new military wing, which launches sabotage campaign.
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A group of Cuban exiles backed by the US invades Cuba in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion
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They do this by taking trips throughout the South by bus and railroads and are attacked by mobs.
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President Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women and appoints Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman.
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U.S. increases the amount of troups in Vietnam
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Robert Sobukwe appoints Potlako Leballo to act as president of the PAC.
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Leads to violent riots
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Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba
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Matthews Mayezana Mali is shot by the South African Police while leading a march of PAC supporters to the Paarl police station in order to hand over a list of grievances.
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Writes how citizens have the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws
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Makes it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job.
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MS's NAACP feild secretary
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Famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered
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Kills four little girls
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Leader of the ANC
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Bans discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex
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Arrest warrants were issued against eleven alienated young poets of Bengal who called themselves The Hungryalists.
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Roughly 3,000 students will join the 32-hour protest marking the beginning of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement
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The event was attended by 3,500 and began with a discussion of the Vietnam War and ended with a plan to take over the University of Michigan.
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National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam issue a public burning of a draft card in protest to the Vietnam War
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The National Organization for Women seeks to end sexual discrimination, especially in the workplace, by means of legislative lobbying, litigation, and public demonstrations
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Hanged after being accused of plotting to overthrow the state in his many literary works
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Prime Minister at the time
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100,000 people came to the Ahigh-Ashbury neighborhood of San Franciso, initiating a cultural and political shift.
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Period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II
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Leader of the Civil Rights Movement
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Violent confrontations between protestors and police lead to thousands of arrests.
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Banished to Galeshewe in Kimberley.
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Rules that jobs held by men and women need to be "substantially equal" but not "identical" to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act.
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President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
