1960

1955 – 1975

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Disneyland opens

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Hawaii becomes a state

  • John F. Kennedy wins presidency

  • Alcatraz is closed

  • Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream"

  • Thurgood Marshall becomes Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
  • Jason Crowhurst is born

  • Suzette Crowhurst is born

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Watergate Crisis begins

  • President Nixon Resigns