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Feminist movement
Congress passes the equal pay act. Making it illegal for employers to pay women less than what a man would receive for the same job. -
Counterculture
Volkswagen maker of the Beato automobile expands its production offering to include a microbus in 1950. Known officially as the Volkswagen type 2. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."The courts unanimous decision over turned provisions of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
Montgomery bus boycot
African Americans were still required by the the state to sit at the back of the bus. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery Alabama to protest. -
Little rock crisis
The school board orders the high schools to open. Under a pill do United States Supreme Court rules that little rock must continue with it desegregation plans. -
Freedom riders
Seven blacks and six whites left Washington DC on to public buses down for the deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in boyton v. Virginia which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Latino movement
Air flights between the US and Cuba or suspended following the Cuban missile crisis. Many people believe that Castro would be overthrown and they would soon be able to return to Cuba. -
Betty Frieden
In American writer, activist, in feminist. A leading figure in women's movement in the United States her 1963 book is very moving. -
March on Washington
It was for jobs and freedom. The point of it was to stand up for civil and economic right for African Americans. -
Civil rights act of 1964
First proposed by John F. Kennedy. Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Malcolm X / black panthers
He was assasinated in 1965. It is said that the black panther party used his philosophy. -
Watts riot
Took place in watts neighborhood los Angelas. It was all because an African American was riding a bike drunk. -
Black power
Frankly many young blacks rejected the courage and patience displayed by Dr. Martin Luther King and his nonviolent response to injustices in American society. The progress made by African-Americans in 1950s and early 1960s at achieving their civil rights was compromised by violence. -
Marin L. King assationation
A civil rights activist who was fatally shot and killed at Loraine motel. He was given a noble peace prize and head of civil rights. -
Roe vs wade
It was decided simultaniacly beside the case doe vs Bolton. Women could get an ebotion because of the 14th amendment.
