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The Beginning
The Vietnam War began -
Making History
John F. Merchant was the second black to enter the University of Virginia Law School, but he was the first to matriculate in 1958. -
King
Martin Luther King ends bus boycott after US Supreme affirms that segregation in busing must end. -
"Sit-Ins"
Students protests over sit-in leaders’ expulsions at Baton Rouge’s Southern University, the nation’s largest black school, close it down. -
King Dies
Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis. Ralph Abernathy succeeds him as SCLC President -
One Small Step for Man
Apollo XI space missions, first manned landing on the moon. -
Big Movements. Big Changes.
National Black Feminist Organization is founded. Homosexuality is struck off the list of mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association. Women are almost 45 percent of the US workforce. -
The End
The Vietnam War ended.