Civil/Human Rights and Counterculture Movements

By issi_17
  • Truman Exectutive Order 9808

    Truman Exectutive Order 9808

    Truman signs this order unsegregating the military and allowing blacks, whites, browns, yellows and everything inbetween to work+fight together.
  • Joeseph McCarthy

    Joeseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy statrs declaringg that there are commis everywhere creating a second red scare
  • Segregation

    Segregation

    The Surpreme court rules that Brown V. Board of education is unconstitutional
  • Voting

    Voting

    Women and men have equal say or voted equally
  • ILO

    ILO

    Employers can no longer discriminate people whom they may hire.
  • Letter of birmingham

    Letter of birmingham

    MLK delivers his I have a dream Speech and he also talks about how he believes that segregation shall be abolished.
  • Salary

    Salary

    Women start getting their salary cut by 60 %
  • Shrooms

    Shrooms

    Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms
  • SDS

    SDS

    Boston SANE & fledgling Students for a Democratic Society hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters.
  • National farm workers

    National farm workers

    Ceasar Chavez creates a labor union for all farm workers
  • Watts riot

    Watts riot

    Big race riot ending in 6 days leaving 35 dead
  • Maryjuana

    Maryjuana

    Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time.
  • LSD

    LSD

    FBI releases files on LSD
  • Cabinet

    Cabinet

    Weaver is the first black person to work for the presdient on his cabinet.
  • Beauty

    Beauty

    1st beaty pageant is held in Atlanta City
  • Housing

    Housing

    Blacks and other minorities were allowed to leave the ghettos and realitors were unable to deny housing based on skin color and sex etc...
  • national women liberation convention

    national women liberation convention

    1st national women liberation convention is held in chicago
  • MLK assassignated

    MLK assassignated

    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.