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Council on African Affairs (Pan-African)
Centraly in Harlen, it was the first U.S. solidarity organization in support of African struggles against colonialism and apartheid. Ended in 1955. -
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey (Gay Rights)
Alfred Kinsey publishes a book that reveals to the public that homosexuality is far more widespread than was commonly believed. -
Afrikaner National Party (Anti-Apartheid)
When they took power, the racial discrimination in South Africa became law. -
Executive Order 9981 (Civil Rights)
President Truman desegregates the Army of the United States. -
Qutb Sent to America (Radical Islam)
This is the year that the man who will depict America as Hell on Earth is sent to America by his friends in hope of shrinking his radical ideas. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established (Cold War)
Western styled nation around the northern Atlantic Ocean pledge to settle disputes among themselves peacefully and to defend one another against outside aggressors. -
Soiet Union explodes their first Atomic Bomb (Cold War)
Soviet Unoin officially has nuclear power. -
Korean War (Cold War)
U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. -
Population Registration Act (Anti-Apartheid)
One of the foundations of legislative apartheid, with all the subsequent segregation legislation being based on the classification it established. -
Mattachine Society (Gay Rights)
The first national gay rights organization, is formed by Harry Hay. -
Ayman al-Zawahiri's brithday (Radical Islam)
The founder of Al-Jihad and the second leader of Al-Qaeda is born. -
Bantu Authorities Act (Anti-Apartheid)
Requires natives South Africans to carry passports to enter selective "White" areas. -
Abolition of Passes Act (Anti-Apartheid)
Natives no longer need to carry a passport, but they do need to carry a book of many forms of their own identification which still limits them exponentially. -
Korean War stops (Cold War)
Boarder between South and North Korean is reset and military from other nation leaves. -
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act (Anti-Apartheid)
Produced official segregation for natives and the seperate lace were deffinitely not equal. -
Qutb is imprisoned for 15 years (Radical Islam)
There are many reports of Qtub being tortured and deathly ill during his imprisonment. -
Brown v. Board of Education (Civil Rights)
Supreme Court rules segregation of schools unconstitutional. -
Qutb hired as newspaper editor (Radical Islam)
Qutb becomes the editor of al-Ikhwān al-Muslimu gaining the ability to widely express his radical ideals, but it was shut down quickly becase of its negativity to the Egyptian goverment. -
Daughters of Bilitis (Gay Rights)
The first lesian-rights organization in the United States is formed. -
Warsaw Pact (Cold War)
The military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. -
Rosa Parks (Civil Rights)
Refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
Beatles (Counterculture)
A band is formed in Hamburg playing music that was considered out of the ordinary, but quickly gained popularity. -
Osama bin Ladn's Birthday (Radical Islam)
The day the founder of Al-Qaeda is born. -
Little Rock Nine (Civil Rights)
Those pro segregation in the south exerience the terror from the white public resisting desegregation in education. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (Civil Rights)
source It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizen's right to vote. -
Pan African Congress (Pan-African
An Africanist group who broke away from the African National Congress holds its first national meeting in Johannesburg at the Orlando community hall under the banner “Africanist Liberation Congress." -
Pan African Freedom Movement collapses (Pan-African)
An organization for the freedon of Pan-Africans dies with its leader, Dr Peter Ntsele. -
The Birth Control Pill (Counterculture)
The birth control pill is released and aproved for contraceptive use. -
Sharpeville Massacre (Anit-Apartheid)
At least 180 black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws. -
SNCC (Civil Rights)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded to give young people an organization to fight for equality. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Civil Rights)
Established investigation policies from the government to eliminate descrimination at the voting polls. -
Freedom Riders (Civil Rights)
source seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Not a Crime! (Gay Rights)
Illinois becomes the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. -
Haging of PAC Members (Pan-African)
Five white people are killed by Poqo members at Mbashe Bridge near Umtata while sleeping in caravans. This resulted in the arrest of 23 members of the organization who were sentenced to death and hanged. -
Pretoria Supreme Court Arrested (Pan-African)
PAC member Jeff Kgalabi Masemola is charged together with 14 other people in the Pretoria Supreme Court with conspiracy to commit sabotage. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. -
Beatles Broadcasted (Counterculture)
The now intrnational rock band is broadcasted to approximately 15 million people. -
24th Amendment (Civil Rights)
Eliminates poll tax so then poorer citizens, mostly African American, are safely capable of voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Civil Rights)
source Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Sexual Revolution (Counterculture)
With the Birth control pill now mass produced and gay rights slowly bt surely gaining popularity, sexual activity has become a more social norm and is now available without having to worry about children. -
Protest against the Vietnem war (Counterculture)
Almost the entire educated national public collectively sets up organizd protests to protest against American actions in Vietnam. -
US Officially sends troops to South Vietnam (Cold War)
The United States sends battle-ready soldiers to Vietnam to fight the existing Communism. -
National Transexual Counseling Unit (Gay Rights)
World's first transgender organization established in San Fransisco. -
Anti War Protest (Counterculture)
Roughly 25,000 people gather on 5th Avenue to protest against America engaging in war. -
Sayyid Qutb is hanged (Radical Islam)
Qutb is executed for planning to overthrow the Egyptian government. -
Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom (Counterculture)
10,000 people walk in New York City for love, peace, and freedom. -
Summer of Love (Counterculture)
The summer that 2,000 people migrated to Haight-Ashbury district in San Fransisco where they experimented with drugs, wore unconventional clothing, and listened to rock music and speeches by political radicals. -
Peace and Freedom Party (Counterculture)
A political party that was formed under the basis of being opposed to war. The Vietnam war was most specifically used by this group to gain votes for their nominies. -
My Lai Massacre (Cold War)
US troops murder hundreds of unarmed South Vietnam civilians. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Civil Rights)
source Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
General Strike of 1968 (Counterculture)
In Paris, French students nearly toppled the government of France with this strike that lasted many weeks. -
Robert Sobukhwe Released from Prison (Pan-African)
Founder member and former president of the PAC Robert Sobukhwe is released from prison and banished to Galeshewe in Kimberley. -
Homosexuality is not Psycotic! (Gay Rights)
The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders. -
US troops leave Vietnam (Cold War)
The United States troops begin to exit Vietnam and US involvement in Vietnam decreases exponentially. -
South Vietnam Falls (Cold War)
Communist forces take over South Vietnam
