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Mexican American partes sue school districts in California and argue against children being racially segregated in schools.
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Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in a national league level of a sport in America, therefore breaking color barriers.
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It was the American program to aid Europe where the U.S. gave monelary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War Two inorder to prevent the spread of social communism.
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The government officially dissolved the very large--almost too hard to contain--Muslim Brothers and arrested many of its members.
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The prospect of further communist expansion prompted the U.S. and 11 other western countries to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The era where counterculture begins, begins.
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Because of the large size of the organization, filled with multi-colored people, the NAACP was able to get a good enough argument/evidence and support to overturn important racial cases.
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In retailiation for raids against their bases, British forces assaulted police barracks in the canal city of Ismailia, firing at point-blank range for twelve hours and killing fifty police conscripts. Mobs then formed in Cairo and burned British buildings.
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The NAACP wanted to desegregate the entire public education in all grades. In this "Brown v. Board" case, the NAACP bad a good argument/evidence and therefore won the case.
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Nasser was addressing the crowd, and then suddenly a person from the crown fired 8 shots, all missing nasser but aimed at him. It ended up being a turning point for Nasser's presidency.
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Sayyid Qutb was moved to the prison hospital where he stayed for the next decade developing a highly personal, eight-volume commentary called "In the Shade of the Quran," which by itself would have assured his place as one of the most significant modern Islamic thinkers.
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THe Societ Union and its affiliated comminst nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, against NATO.
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Rosa Parks, an African-American, boarded a bus and sat in the correct area where she was supposed to, but she was still asked to stand up so that the white man could take her seat. She refused and was arrested, sparking many acts advocating civil rights .
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It advocated non-violent resistance to fight injustice in racial problems across America.
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Local and State officials resisted the "Brown's" decisions and orders to desegregate, and clashes with the federal government resulted from that.
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THis law established the US Civil Rights comission, which had the power to investigate violations of civil rights and give the attorney general large power to protect the African-Americans.
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament begins and is meant for all the countries throughout the world. Their logo, commonly referred to today as the peace sign, is very popular in today's culture.
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More than 70 south Africans are killed in Sharpeville after refusing to carry their reference books. The government then bans the ANC.
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Part of the ANC worked in exile against apartheid with the others, led by Nelson Mandela, launched an armed resistance in the country.
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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. There was a riot of students who had to be forced out of the meeting.
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The United Nations declared 1960 to be the year of Africa in recognition to the large number of African states that gained independence that year.
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The Berlin Wall was created in the dead of night and for 28 years it kept the East Germans out of West Germany.
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Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world got to nuclear war. The U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and the Soviet field commanders in Cuba were perpared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the ireland.
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The UN establishes the special committee against apartheid to support a process of peaceful change in South Africa.
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The purpose of this organization was to protect its members states integrity and relations with the rest of the world.
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Heads of state and government of 32 African states sign this unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Therefore, they will be creating the first inter-government African organizing body.
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Sparked a new society because a popular leader against communism was assassinated.
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Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is recongized for his efforts in fighting racial inequality with non-violence.
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Cesar Chaves and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers Association, which is the most important worker Union in the U.S.
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The songs that represent the counterculture had now started to become popular.
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Sayyid Qutb was hanged for plotting to kill the leader Nasser. This action sparked many young radicalists, such as Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, to fight for their radical beliefs, ones like Qutb's.
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National Party Prime Minister is assassinated in Cape Town, South Africa. This man is considered the "architect of apartheid."
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This act applies to all Cuban Americans who have lived in America for over a year. This act gives them permanent residence in America for the rest of their lives.
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this situation was the Vietnam War mass killing of around 500 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam, which the Americans thought were the undercover fighters.
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Mexican American legal defense and educational fund becomes first legal funders of the civil rights for Mexican Americans.
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Brezhnov said that he had the right to violate the sovereignity of any country attempting to replace marxism or Leninism with Captialism. He was a very socialist person.
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The drug "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" commonly know as LSD, was banned in the United States, and as a result, riots started to arise, especially in San Francisco.
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The fifth conference of East and Central African heads of states and government held in Lusaka issues this, commonly known as the "Lusaka Manifesto," stating that they will support the armed liberation struggles against white minority regimes in Southern Africa.
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Nixon told his men, ready with nuclear weapons, that they need to convince the Soviets by telling them, that they are capable of anything to stop the Vietnam War.
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United States Department of Health says that students cannot be denied access to educational programs because they cannot speak English.
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More than 3 million Black South Africans were forced to resettle in reserves.
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Military operations in the 1970's with the United States and South Vietnam to defeat the People's Army of Vietnam.