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A student activist movement was formed.
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Four African American Stundents, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, Jr., walked into an F.W. Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at the lunch counters and refused to move untill they were served.
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JFK and Nixons first debate held on television for the first time during the 1960 elections.
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NLF Vietnamese political organization formed in effect to overthrow of the South Vietnamese government.
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John. F Kennedy gave his Inaugural speech afrter taking the presidential oath.
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The SCLC became involved in assisting the Albany Movement in Goergia with protests against racial-segregation.
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Gov. Ross Barnett personally blocked entrance to Ole Miss's admissions office.
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Silent Spring talked about effects of pesticides on the environment.
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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith
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Missiles were placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union
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Kennedy identifies three possible steps he planned on taking to deal with the missle threat.
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Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade around Cuba.
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Writen by Betty Friedan describing the unhappiness of women.
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High school students were hit by a high-pressure water jet from a firehose during a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of murder and served a life sentence for shooting and killing Kennedy.
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Civil Rights activist and Secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi was shot and killded on his driveway.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delievered his most famous "I Have a Dream" speech in support of the Civil Rights Bill.
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Interatial non-violent gathering were 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial.
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In an act of racial terriorism, 4 girls were killed at a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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JFK was shot and kill in Dallas, Texas while campaigning for the 1964 elections.
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Freedom Summer was an attempt to register as many African Americans to vote.
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The Civil Rights Act makes it unlawful for an employer refuse to hire an individual, or discriminate against any individual because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Speech by George C. Wallace The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax
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Gave LBJ broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War.
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party protested because blacks had been denied their constitutional right to vote and participate in the political process.
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Lyndon Johnson outlined the goals of the great society.
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Malcom X was shot to death by people of the Nation of Islam
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Alabama State troopers attack civil rights demonstraters outside Selma, Alabama.
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Lyndon Johnsons Voting rights Act is passed and all African Americans are allowed to vote.
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Watts Riots was a race riot which took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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N.O.W was formed so that women cold have equality, opportunity and freedom of choice which is their right
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Latino march to gain better working conditions.
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Mass Bombing on Vietnam.
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Nixon wins election by less than 1 percent and becomes president.
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North and South Vietnam agreed to "cease fire" during the Tet Lunar New Year celebrations but instead an wave of attacks were launched.
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Soldiers on a "search and destroy" mission killed as many as 504 Vietnamese women, children and old men.
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Lyndon Johnson announces on television that he will not be running for president in the next election.
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Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet whil standing on a balcony
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Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
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Newspapers across the country printed accounts of the massacre.
