Timetoast Timeline

By jake.vanderziel

  • Sweatt v. Painter: ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

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    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965: Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968: prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Title IX: protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Kent State University shooting

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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