Postmodernism By emwhales Aug 4, 1946 US grants independence to the Philippines 1949 Arthur Miller produces Death of a Salesman 1952 Ralph Ellison publishes Invisible Man 1954 Supreme Court rules public school segregation to be unconstitutional 1955 Flannery O' Connor publishes A Good Man is Hard to Find 1959 Alaska and Hawaii admitted to the Union and the 49th and 50th states 1961 Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22 1962 Environmental protection movement started because of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring 1963 President JFK was assassinated in Dallas 1966 Ariel, last collection of poems was published by Sylvia Path 1968 MLK Jr. was murdered in Memphis 1969 Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon 1972 Last set of US combat troops leave Vietnam, peace treaty was signed in 1973 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington D.C. 1987 Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF treaty, agreeing to ban some nuclear missiles 1988 George Bush was elected president 1990 Congress passes the American with Disabilities 1992 Bill Clinton was elected president 1993 Toni Morrison wins Nobel Prize 1995 Amy Tan publishes her third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses 1996 Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, GA 1997 Frank McCourt's autobiography wins a Pulitzer Prize 2000 George W Bush defeats Al Gore in presidential election 2001 Eudora Welty dies She was a novelist and short story writer Aug 11, 2001 Hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York Thousands of lives were lost 2004 President George W Bush is re-elected
