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The Liberal Era

By hcps-yogaswanh

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Outlawed segregation in schools

  • "The Pill" comes on the market

    Gives Woman sexual freedom with less chance of risk
  • Peace Corps founded

    Peace Corps founded

  • Bay of Pigs

    Unsuccessful invasion of Cuba

  • Silent Spring published

    Book written by Rachel Carson that gave Americans an awareness of enviromental issues

  • I have a Dream Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I have a Dream" Speech

  • March on Washington

    A quarter of a million people, blacks and whites alike, marched to Washington DC

  • Assassination of Kennedy/LBJ sworn in

    Declared dead at the hospital. Lyndon Johnson was taken into Air Force One to be sworn in as president

  • Economic Opportunity Act

    Signed by Johnson. Establihed Office of Economic Opportunity in an effort to fight poverty

  • Malcolm X Assassinated

  • First 'Teach-in' at University of Michigan

    Students and teachers gathered to disscuss the U.S. intervention of the Vietnam War

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    First federal-aid-to-education law. Gave $1 billion to help provide supplies for public schools and programs

  • Watts Riots

    Riots in a black neighborhood broke out between the residents and the white police officers

  • Miranda vs. Arizona

    Officers must read suspects of Miranda rights before arresting them

  • National Organization for Women founded

  • Assassination of MLK

    Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at his house

  • Apollo 11 lands

    Apollo 11 lands Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon's surface

  • Occupation of Alcatraz

    Members of American Indian Movement occupy Alcatraz Island