1960-Public Protests

By Kinder Rhodes

  • JFK Wins Election

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy wins the presidential election with over 100,000 votes

  • Peace Corps

    JFK places an order creating the peace corps, promoting good practices

  • Segregationist Judge

    JFK appointed a segregationist judge, which then angered the community.

  • JFK Assassinated

    JFK is killed in Dallas Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in that day.

  • Johnson Cuts Taxes

    President Johnson lowers taxes by a significant amount

  • Great Society

    Johnson proposes the idea of a change with society

  • Berkeley Free Speech Movement

    About 3000 students took part in a 32 hour protest starting the beginning of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.

  • California Faculty Support

    The California Faculty helps support the Free Speech Movement.

  • Voting Rights Act

    LBJ signs the bill that gets rid of the laws against literacy tests and other tests used against African Americans

  • Man On the Moon

    This is the day we beat Russia to putting a man on the moon.