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president harry s truman became the 33rd president after the death of president FDR. -
jackie robinson becomes the first african american man to play baseball for the brooklyn dodgers -
truman orders the desegregation of the armed forces -
famous landmark court decision about the integration of UT law school -
dwight eisenhower becomes the 34th president after truman retires -
famous landmark supreme court decision on the integration of all public schools in the US. -
the little rock nine were a group of people that resisted segergation in little rock arkansas. -
this caused sit ins across america, and students for a democratic society (sds) formed. the student nonviolent coordinating committee formed -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme court -
this made sds issue port huron statement,silent spring by rachel carson, and the other america by michael harrington published. -
lyndon b johnson became the 36th president right after john f kennedy was shot and killed. his wife went to lyndon for help and was with him through his presidency having her husband been the president and they were close friends. -
the march on washington was a protest for racial equality.at the end of it was the i have a dream speech by mlk by the monument and everyone in the march stopped to listen. -
president kennedy was shot during a car ride. his wife was by his side and the body guards were not where they were supposed to be at the time of the shot because kennedy wanted them to move away from the back of the car. -
this was written to describe the assumptions that women would be fulfilled from their housework, marriage, sexual lives -
he ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 election, winning in a landslide over Republican opponent Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson did not run for a second full term in the 1968 presidential election. He was succeeded by Republican Richard Nixon.
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In his first State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to declare an “unconditional war on poverty” and to aim “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it” -
In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing -
In 1964, Mario Savio and 500 fellow students marched on Berkeley's administration building to protest the university's order. He and other leaders called for an organized student protest to abolish all restrictions on students' free-speech rights throughout the University of California system. -
February 21, 1965, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY -
Nearly 14,000 members of the California Army National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths, as well as over $40 million in property damage -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that "full educational opportunity" should be "our first national goal." From its inception, ESEA was a civil rights law. -
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson traveled to the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, to sign Medicare into law. His gesture drew attention to the 20 years it had taken Congress to enact government health insurance for senior citizens after Harry Truman had proposed it. -
The voting rights bill was passed in the U.S. Senate by a 77-19 vote on May 26, 1965. After debating the bill for more than a month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 333-85 on July 9. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, with Martin Luther King Jr -
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. -
Stokely Carmichael was the controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader who, in 1966, popularized the phrase "black power." Carmichael was a leading force in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), working in the Deep South to organize African American voters. -
The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501 social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members -
the assassination of MLK
the assassination of robert kennedy
student protest in columbia university
battle between police and protesters
nixon elected 37th president