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Truman signs this order unsegregating the military and allowing blacks, whites, browns, yellows and everything inbetween to work+fight together.
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Joseph McCarthy statrs declaringg that there are commis everywhere creating a second red scare
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The Surpreme court rules that Brown V. Board of education is unconstitutional
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Women and men have equal say or voted equally
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Employers can no longer discriminate people whom they may hire.
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MLK delivers his I have a dream Speech and he also talks about how he believes that segregation shall be abolished.
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Women start getting their salary cut by 60 %
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Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms
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Boston SANE & fledgling Students for a Democratic Society hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters.
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Ceasar Chavez creates a labor union for all farm workers
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Big race riot ending in 6 days leaving 35 dead
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Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time.
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FBI releases files on LSD
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Weaver is the first black person to work for the presdient on his cabinet.
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1st beaty pageant is held in Atlanta City
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Blacks and other minorities were allowed to leave the ghettos and realitors were unable to deny housing based on skin color and sex etc...
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1st national women liberation convention is held in chicago
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James Earl Ray assassinates Martin Luther King, while he is standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In outrage of the murder, many blacks take to the streets in a massive wave of riots across the U.S.