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John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. -
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, which included the enforcement of voting rights. -
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
In 1960 he got elected as vice president then in 1963 John F. Kennedy dies and Lyndon Johnson is now president. While in presidency he sings the civil rights act which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.And he also sends begins sending thousand of troupes to Vietnam -
Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, About 45 minutes after killing Kennedy,Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit.He then went into a theater where he was later arrest for the officers murder.Oswald was charged with the assassination of Kennedy, but he denied responsibility for the killing, stating that he was a "patsy".Two days later,Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. -
Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” (Which went against mlk) Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of his murder in 1966. Law enforcement at the time framed Malcolm’s assassination as the result of an ongoing dispute between him and the NOI; Malcolm had left the group in 1964 on bad terms. -
Martin Luther King, Jr., a prominent American leader of the civil rights movement was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died that evening. He was a prominent leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested and charged with King's murder. -
Richard M. Daley, 54th mayor of Chicago, was the longest-serving mayor.He attained great power in national Democratic Party politics. Daley’s administration was criticized, however, for its reluctance to check racial segregation in housing and in the public schools, for its encouragement of the construction of tall office buildings in the downtown area, and for its measures taken against demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention in 1968
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