Timeline 1955-1975

  • William F. Buckley elite conservatism

  • Brown II

  • Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company

  • Emmett Till kidnapped and murdered

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • Congress passed the Civil Rights Act

  • Greensboro sit-ins

  • Kennedy enters the presidency

  • KKK members attack riders in Birmingham

  • Bay of Pigs

  • James Meredith becomes the first black student at University of Mississippi

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis averted

  • The SCLC organizes the Birmingham Campaign

  • March on Washington

  • Ngo Dinh Diem assasinated

  • President Kennedy assasinated in Dallas, Tx

  • Lyndon B. Johnson wins the presidential election

  • Neshoba County Fair-three civil rights workers are murdered

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Barry Goldwater is nominated

  • President Johnson introduces The Great Society

  • Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)

  • Mary Quant invents the miniskirt

  • USS Maddox reported incoming fire from North Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Cuban Adjustment Act

  • Antiwar Demonstrations become popular

  • President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission

  • George Wallace runs for president

  • politicized mothers in Anaheim, California, led a sustained protest against sex education in public schools.

  • Tet Offensive

  • Green v. New Kent County

  • Protesters converged on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

  • President Johnson does not seek re-election

  • Martin Luther King Jr. killed

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. killed

  • Alexander v. Holmes

  • Nixon Doctrine

  • Richard Nixon becomes President

  • The Rolling Stones have a concert at Altamont Motor Speedway in Northern California

  • Disco

  • Nixon visits communist China

  • Nixon's administration tries to sue New York Times and the Washington Post

    The Pentagon Papers
  • George Wallace runs for president again

  • The Watergate Scandal

  • North and South Vietnamese governments signed the Paris Peace Accords

  • The Supreme Court’s- Roe v. Wade

  • American forces withdraw from South Vietnam