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In Greensboro, NC and Nashville, TN blacks weren’t being served at lunch counters, so they went and sat down and wouldn’t leave until they got served.
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John F. Kennedy was elected president over Nixon, but only by a small amount
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Unsuccessful attempt by the CIA to get Fidel Castro out of power
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they were protesting about segregated train stations, this event happened to be a failure because they tried to do too many things at one time.
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book written by Rachel Carson, this book was said to widely launch the Environmental movement
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closest the United States has even come to being in a nuclear war with Russia
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Written by Betty Friedan, really started the feminist movement
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This showed support for Kennedy and his civil rights bill and it showed national unity. 2 hundred thousand people, white and black, attended. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I Have A Dream Speech.
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JFK was shot and killed during a parade in Dallas, Texas
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Protesting in Mississippi because of the lack of voting rights
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forbade discrimination on the basis of sex or race.
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gave the president ultimate power to do whatever he wanted during a war
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book written by Ralph Nader during the Consumer Movement that said most American automobiles were not safe.
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Warren Court decision that you had to be read your rights when you were getting arrested
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Secret bombings by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese on the U.S. troops
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U.S. soldiers killed over about 567 old men, women, and children in a Vietnamese town
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Violence broke out between protestors and police forces; most of the country was siding with the police force.
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Richard Nixon became president.
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Music and art festival in Bethel, New York, 500,000 young people from across the country attended
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Marching for voting rights in Alabama, the marchers were stopped and beaten by cops. This was shown on national TV and the nation realized how bad the problem was
