Timeline 1955-1975 By emmadayton 1955 William F. Buckley elite conservatism 1955 Brown II 1955 Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company 1955 Emmett Till kidnapped and murdered 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat 1957 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act 1960 Greensboro sit-ins 1961 Kennedy enters the presidency 1961 KKK members attack riders in Birmingham Apr 16, 1961 Bay of Pigs 1962 James Meredith becomes the first black student at University of Mississippi Oct 28, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis averted 1963 The SCLC organizes the Birmingham Campaign 1963 March on Washington 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assasinated Nov 22, 1963 President Kennedy assasinated in Dallas, Tx 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson wins the presidential election 1964 Neshoba County Fair-three civil rights workers are murdered 1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 Barry Goldwater is nominated 1964 President Johnson introduces The Great Society 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) 1964 Mary Quant invents the miniskirt Aug 2, 1964 USS Maddox reported incoming fire from North Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin 1965 Voting Rights Act 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act 1967 Antiwar Demonstrations become popular 1967 President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission 1968 George Wallace runs for president 1968 politicized mothers in Anaheim, California, led a sustained protest against sex education in public schools. 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Green v. New Kent County 1968 Protesters converged on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Mar 31, 1968 President Johnson does not seek re-election Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. killed Jun 6, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. killed 1969 Alexander v. Holmes 1969 Nixon Doctrine 1969 Richard Nixon becomes President Dec 6, 1969 The Rolling Stones have a concert at Altamont Motor Speedway in Northern California 1970 Disco 1971 Nixon visits communist China 1971 Nixon's administration tries to sue New York Times and the Washington Post The Pentagon Papers 1972 George Wallace runs for president again Jun 17, 1972 The Watergate Scandal 1973 North and South Vietnamese governments signed the Paris Peace Accords 1973 The Supreme Court’s- Roe v. Wade 1975 American forces withdraw from South Vietnam