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The CORE organization was founded
In the year of 1942, the organization named CORE was founded. CORE is the Congress of Racial Equality group that came about in Chicago. The organization was founded by James Farmer to
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Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers
In the year of 1947 baseball player, Jackie Robinson, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, baseball team. Robinson broke a racial barrier by being the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. This was a major event for African Americans and played a key role int eh desegregation of the United States. -
Truman Ordered Desegregation of Military
Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
America's Increased Aid to France
In the Second World War, the United States again favored France over Nazi Germany. The successful performance of German warplanes during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) suddenly forced France to realize its military inferiority. Germany had better warplanes, more of them, and much more efficient production systems. President Franklin Roosevelt had long been interested in France and was a personal friend of French Senator, Baron Amaury de La Grange. -
BEAT Movement
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era -
Woolworth Sit-ins
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. -
JFK was assassinated
On November 22, 1963, the 35th president, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas while riding through a parade in his car. In the car with him was his wife and Texas governor John Connally. The shooter was on the top floor of a building that Kennedy driveby during the parade. The shooter is said to be former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald -
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines -
Rosa Parks gets arrested
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activit who was arrested because she would not give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white male who had just gotten on the bus. Her arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycotts where the African Americans of Montgomery did not ride the bus. -
Southern Manifesto
The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. -
SCLC was Founded
The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in early 1957. It was a group made up of many churches and was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. up until his assassination. The purpose of the group was to PEACEFULLY protest racial inequality and to influence the love of God through the world. This group is what led Rosa Parks to peacefully refuse to give up her bus seat and the SNCC to peacefully have sit-ins at local cafes. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
On August 5, 1963, after more than eight years of difficult negotiations, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. -
The Little Rock 9
In September of 1957 in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, 9 African American students attended the formally all-white school for the first time ever. The governor at that time, Orval Faubus, did not want the students to attend the school and sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering. In opposition, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the students into the school. -
NASA was founded
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was founded on July 29, 1958. -
SDS organization was founded
Students for Democratic Society was an organization was made for protesting the Vietnam war and also to support the civil rights acts. -
Castro Overthrows the Regime of Cuba
Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organization, "The Movement". -
SNCC was Founded
The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was a nonviolent protest group made up of college students in the 1960s. Many of their protest tactics included sit-ins at local cafes and restaurants. The first organized meeting was held by Ella Baker at Shaw University in May of 1960. -
Hippies in the US
The hippie subculture began its development as a youth movement in the United States during the early 1960s and then developed around the world. The hippie counterculture reached its height during the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and subsided as the conflict drew to a close.But hippies’ rejection of mainstream American culture, and their distinctive brand of rebellion—including their long hair and beards, colorful style, and psychedelic drug use. -
National Liberation Front
North Vietnam had decided where their front would be for the liberation of South Vietnam. The NLF reached out to people in South Vietnam who were not pleased with the current government and helped represent them -
Haight-Ashbury
Birthplace of the 1960s counterculture movement, Haight-Ashbury draws a lively, diverse crowd looking to soak up the historic hippie vibe. Upper Haight Street is a hodgepodge of vintage clothing boutiques, record shops, bookstores, dive bars, and casual, eclectic restaurants. -
Black college students sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats -
Freedom Rides
The freedom rides were used as a civil rights protest for equality of the African American society. During the rides there were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores -
Air Quality Act
. The Clean Air Act of 1963 was the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control. It established a federal program within the U.S. Public Health Service and authorized research into techniques for monitoring and controlling air pollution. In 1967, the Air Quality Act was enacted in order to expand federal government activities. As part of these proceedings, the federal government for the first time conducted extensive ambient monitoring studies and stationary source inspections. -
John Glenn was the 1st to orbit the Earth
John Glenn was the 1st to orbit the Earth. His landing took place on February 20, 1962 and made him the first person to orbit the Earth completely. -
The March on Washington
The March on Washinton was a major protest event that took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washinton D.C. Some 250,000 people were in attendance at the march. It was here in August of 1963 that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. The march, also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation -
Meredith Graduates from "Ole Miss"
James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, graduates with a degree in political science. His enrollment in the university a year earlier was met with deadly riots, and he subsequently attended class under heavily armed guard. -
16th Street Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. -
Economic Opportunity Act
The Economic Opportunity act trained young men and women to get prepared for jobs. It was signed by President Johnson. -
Malcolm X formed his own organization
The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was modeled on the Organisation of African Unity, which had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April and May 1964. The purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the human rights of African Americans and promote cooperation among Africans and people of African descent in the Americas. -
Beatles come to the U.S.A.
The day that the Beatles invasion started in America was February 2, 1964. Thousands of fans had arrived from all over Britain and any ordinary passengers hoping to travel that day had to give up. Screaming, sobbing girls held up 'We Love You, Beatles' banners and hordes of police, linking arms in long chains, held them back. We were ushered into a massive press conference, where journalists, spotting me at the side of the room, demanded a picture of John and me together -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act was signed
In 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The purpose of the act was to get quality and equality in education. -
Water Quality Act
The act aimed to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters. -
Civil Rights Act of 57
The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Medicare/Medicaid was made
The original Medicare program included Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance). Medicaid gave medical insurance to people getting cash assistance. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 65
The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States. -
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The voting rights act of 1965 was signed by president Lyndon B. Johnson. The purpose of the act was to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote. When African Americans were trying to register to vote, many courthouse workers would make up reasons that they couldn't register. -
Malcolm X was killed
In February of 1965 a major role model in the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, was assassinated. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
Bloody Sunday
Around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. As the crowd was crossing the bridge, the group was shot at, hit with a bat, and tramples with horses as they were peacefully protesting their voting rights as black citizens. In the group, there were many white citizens that were priests, or other members of the church. -
US Bombs Vietnam
U.S. planes bomb targets in North Vietnam but refrain from bombing Hanoi and the Soviet missile sites that surround the city. On June 17, two U.S. Navy jets downed two communist MiGs and destroyed another enemy aircraft three days later. U.S. planes also dropped almost 3 million leaflets urging the North Vietnamese to get their leaders to end the war. -
The Term “Black Power” arose in the African American Community
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NTMV Safety Act
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was passed in 1966 by President Johnson -
Air Quality Act
The Air Quality Act of 1967 also authorized expanded studies of air pollutant emission inventories, ambient monitoring techniques, and control techniques. -
My Lai Invasion Becomes public
U.S. Army officers covered up the carnage for a year before it was reported in the American press, sparking a firestorm of international outrage. The brutality of the My Lai killings and the official cover-up fueled anti-war sentiment and further divided the United States over the Vietnam War. When the news got out about what the US military had done it made many people oppose the war in Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Invasion
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world. Just after 6 p.m. the following day, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and his associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39. -
RFK was assassinated
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Senator Kennedy spoke to journalists, and shortly after leaving the podium and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired from a handgun. -
Nixon wins Presidency
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years. -
Bombing of Cambodia
In March 1969, President Richard Nixon authorized secret bombing raids in Cambodia, a move that escalated opposition to the Vietnam War in Ohio and across the United States. Nixon believed North Vietnam was transporting troops and supplies through neighboring Cambodia into South Vietnam. He hoped that bombing supply routes in Cambodia would weaken the United States' enemies. -
Affirmative Action Program
Affirmative action laws are policies instituted by the government to help level the playing field for those historically disadvantaged due to factors such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These laws typically pertain to equal opportunities in employment, education, and business. -
First Moon Landing
On the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history. After one and a half orbits, Apollo 11 gets a "go" for what mission controllers call "Translunar Injection" - in other words, it's time to head for the moon. -
Woodstock I
The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success, but the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch: Last-minute venue changes and bad weather. -
Kent State Massacre
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam. As the Vietnam War dragged on, with more than 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by 1968, military analyst Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be available to the American public. He photocopied the report and gave the copy to The New York Times. -
26th Amendment
During the Vietnam war, many protestors used the quote "old enough to fight, old enough to vote." With the draft age being 18 and the voting age being 21 many people did not think it was fair that young men that were being told to go fight could not vote for the leaders of their country. Due to this, President Richard Nixon formally certified the 26th Amendment of the Constitution, which granted 18-year-olds the right to vote. -
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Vietnam becomes one Country
After World War II and the collapse of Vietnam's monarchy, France attempted to re-establish its colonial rule but was ultimately defeated in the First Indochina War. The Geneva Accords in 1954 partitioned the country temporarily in two with a promise of democratic elections in 1956 to reunite the country. However, the United States and South Vietnam insisted on United Nations supervision of any election to prevent fraud, which the Soviet Union and North Vietnam refused.
