History Project

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Hank Williams Death

  • "That's All Right" released by Elvis

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  • At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash released

  • Central High School integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • John Kennedy Elected

  • Freedom Riders

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • The Feminine Mystique is published

  • "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" released

  • March on Washington

  • OPEC oil embargo

  • Assassination of John Kennedy

  • Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson

  • Lyndon Johnson re-elected to presidency

  • Assassination of Malcom X

  • March on Selma

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Riots in WATTS

  • Cesar Chavez and farm workers strike

  • Founding conference for NOW

  • The Beatles' "Revolver" released

  • Birth of Kurt Cobain

  • TET Offensive

  • Massacre at My Lai

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Assassination of Robert Kennedy

  • Electric Ladyland released by Jimi Hendrix

  • Rolling Stones releases "Beggars Banquet"

  • Birth of Dave Grohl

  • Nixon becomes president

  • Man on the Moon

  • Woodstock

  • Jackson 5 appears on Ed Sullivan Show

  • First Earth Day observed

  • Kent State Protesters killed

  • ERA passes Congress as a proposed amendment

  • SALT 1 summit

  • Watergate scandal

  • Title IX (sports) is passed

  • Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring

  • Roe vs. Wade passed

  • Wounded Knee and FBI clash

  • Nixon resigns and Ford becomes president