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Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation was constitutional as long as the facilities for black and white were "separate but equal" -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson elected President -
C.O.R.E
Core was founded -
Banned Discrimination
President Roosevelt banned discrimination -
American Dilemma
Gunnar Myrdals published and American Dilemma -
Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Truman desegregation
Truman ordered desegregation of the military -
NAACP
Greatest disappointment was the NAACP's failure -
Beat Movement
Beat movement rejected materialism and focused on personal finance. -
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks got arrested -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act got passed -
Supreme Court
Supreme Court was unconstitutional for segregated buses -
SCLC
SCLC was founded -
Vietcong formed a front
Vietcong formed National Liberation Front -
Little Rock
9 students went to a white school in Little Rock -
Castro
Castro overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista -
James Lawson
James Lawson delivered an inspiring speech -
Invasion of Cuba
CIA planned invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro -
Berlin Wall
Berlin wall was built -
SNCC
SNCC was established -
Hippies
Hippies Emerged -
Boston v. Virginia
Segregation was illegal -
Black Colleges Students sat at a lunch counter
Black college students sat in at a Woolworth's lunch counter -
Peace Corps
Peace Corps was created -
Agent Orange
U.S. dropped Agent Orange -
Meredith court case
Meredith won court case for desegregation -
Orbiting Earth
John Glean was the first American to orbit earth -
Nuclear Test
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -
MLK Birmingham Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham jail -
Meredith Graduated from "Ole Mis"
James Meredith became the first black student to enroll and graduate at the University of Mississippi. -
Alabama state
Government was forced to let black students into Alabama -
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 -
Kennedy was killed
Kennedy was assassinated -
Gulf of Ton kin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was powers are passed to president -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X formed his own organization -
Economic Opportunity Act
Economic Opportunity Act created job corps to train young men and women to work and give them a head start -
Freedom Summer
Major Campaign known as freedom summer- SNCC march for voting registry -
Title VII
Title VII Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on basis of sex -
President Johnson
President Johnson Dramatically altered US role in Vietnam War -
Immigration and Nationality Act
Immigration and Nationality Act altered Americas quota system; Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe -
Medicare and medicaid
Medicare and medicaid low income and senior/ disabled insurance -
Vietnam
U.S. bombed Vietnam -
Voting Rights act
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty," the act has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the United States Congress -
Sunday
Bloody Sunday -
Black Power
The term "Black power" arose -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. -
Motor Vehicle Safety Act
Was enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety. -
Water Quality Act
Refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radio logical characteristics of water. It is a measure of the condition of water relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose. -
Hawks and Doves
Congress and eventually most of the Nation divided into 2 camps know as the Hawks and Doves -
Air Quality Act
A comprehensive Federal law that regulates all sources of air emissions. The 1970 CAA authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards to protect public health and the environment. -
Haight, Ashbury and San Francisco
2,000 people flocked to Haight, Ashbury and San Francisco -
JFK
John F. Kennedy was killed -
MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed -
My Lai
American forces searched for enemy troops in a village called My Lai -
First to the moon
America was the first to land on the moon "Yay we win" -
Tinker vs Des Moines school district
This gave the students free speech -
Cambodia
The war expanded to Cambodia -
My Lai Massacre became Public "Pentagon Papers"
This 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 -
26th Amendment
Allowed you to vote when you are 18 -
War Powers Act
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. -
Paris Peace Accords
United States, North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong all signed the Paris Peace Accords
