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Anti-War Protester (Abbey Hoffman
American political activist Abbey Hoffman was born Nov. 30, 1936, in Worcester, Mass. He was active in the American civil rights movement before turning to protests of the Vietnam War and the American economic and political system. Hoffman's ethic was codified with the formal organization of the Hippies in January 1968. After he was arrested in 1973 on cocaine charges, Hoffman went underground. -
Korean War
n June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War -
International Security Act
To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the ''Internal Security Act of 1950 -
The death of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 years old boy. He was an African American from Chicago. He was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman -
Rosa Parks
African American woman arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, leading to a prolonged bus boycott -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba -
Equal pay act
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. -
Black panthers
On April 25th, 1967, the first issue of The Black Panther, the party's official news organ, goes into distribution. In the following month, the party marches on the California state capital fully armed, in protest of the state's attempt to outlaw carrying loaded weapons in public. Bobby Seale reads a statement of protest; while the police respond by immediately arresting him and all 30 armed Panthers. -
Black power
A 1960s movement that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality During the October 16, 1968 awards ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, U.S. gold and bronze medallists John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise their arms and fists in a Black Power salute. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
Ping-pong diplomacy was successful and resulted in opening the U.S.-PRC relationship, leading the U.S. to lift the embargo against China on June 10, 1971. On February 28, 1972, during President Nixon and Henry Kissinger's visit to Shanghai, the Shanghai Communique was issued between the U.S. and the PRC. -
John Lennon's Assassination
Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. After sustaining four major gunshot wounds, Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. -
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society (S D S), American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960's and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War. (S D S), founded in 1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a social-democratic educational organization.
