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Stalin delivers hostile speech
States communism & capitalism were incompatible -
Pan Africanst Journal founded
T. R. Mekonnen founds the Pan-Africanist Journal in London. -
Truman Doctrine presented
Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
National Party takes over
Policy of apartheid (separateness) adopted when National Party (NP) takes power -
Truman signs Executive Order 9981
This action desegregates the mlitary. -
Population classified by race.
Group Areas Act passed to segregate blacks and whites. Communist Party banned. ANC responds with campaign of civil disobedience, led by Nelson Mandela. -
Red Scare begins
Senator Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests -
Sayyid Qutb joins Muslim Brotherhood
Soon positioned as the head of the Brotherhood’s propaganda department -
Sayyid Qutb returns to Egypt
Returns from America -
John O'Neill born
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Later becomes FBI cheif of counterterrorism -
Malim if al-Tariq written
Qutb wrote his most famous book, Malim if al-Tariq (Milestones). -
KGB established
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti established as the security force of the Soviet Union -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS
Rules segregation in public schools unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus.
Leads to her arrest -
Buses are desegreagted
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads year long boycott -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference established
Comprised of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles K. Steele and Fred L. Shuttlesworth. -
Osama bin Laden born
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution -
Pan African Movement given name
Africanist groups meet and adopt the name an Africanist Congress. The leaders are then selected with Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe as president. -
South Africa excluded from Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from the Olympic Movement due to the apartheid -
Greensboro, NC sit-in
Cause similar nonviolent protest throughout the South. -
Sixty-nine people are killed in the Sharpeville Massacre.
Apartheid requires blacks to carry passbooks, which contain personal information such as name, date of birth, and photos. When protestors show up at the Sharpeville police station without their passbooks, a riot breaks out and police kill 69 people. -
Dr Peter Ntsele dies
The Pan African Freedom Movement (PAFM) collapses after he, their leader, dies -
Birth control pills approved
The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills. -
Birth control pills approved
Creates loose morality due to the elimination of the risk of pregnancy -
Vietcong formed
National Liberation Front for South Vietnam -
South Africa declared a republic
Leaves the Commonwealth. Mandela heads ANC's new military wing, which launches sabotage campaign. -
The Bay of Pigs invasion
A group of Cuban exiles backed by the US invades Cuba in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion -
"Freedom Riders" test new laws probibiting segregation
They do this by taking trips throughout the South by bus and railroads and are attacked by mobs. -
President's Commission on the Status of Women
President Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women and appoints Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman. -
U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases
U.S. increases the amount of troups in Vietnam -
PAC appoints new leader
Robert Sobukwe appoints Potlako Leballo to act as president of the PAC. -
James Meredith becomes first black student to enroll at UCMS
Leads to violent riots -
Khrushchev agrees to remove missles from Cuba
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba -
Leader of march killed by police
Matthews Mayezana Mali is shot by the South African Police while leading a march of PAC supporters to the Paarl police station in order to hand over a list of grievances. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for protests
Writes how citizens have the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws -
Equal Pay Act
Makes it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job. -
Medgar Evers is murdered
MS's NAACP feild secretary -
March on Washington
Famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church boming
Kills four little girls -
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment.
Leader of the ANC -
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Bans discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex -
Hungryalists arrested
Arrest warrants were issued against eleven alienated young poets of Bengal who called themselves The Hungryalists. -
Berekely Free Speech Movement
Roughly 3,000 students will join the 32-hour protest marking the beginning of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement -
First Teach-in
The event was attended by 3,500 and began with a discussion of the Vietnam War and ended with a plan to take over the University of Michigan. -
Draft Card Burning
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam issue a public burning of a draft card in protest to the Vietnam War -
NOW is founded
The National Organization for Women seeks to end sexual discrimination, especially in the workplace, by means of legislative lobbying, litigation, and public demonstrations -
Sayyid Qutb dies
Hanged after being accused of plotting to overthrow the state in his many literary works -
Hendrik Verwoerd assassinated
Prime Minister at the time -
Summer of Love
100,000 people came to the Ahigh-Ashbury neighborhood of San Franciso, initiating a cultural and political shift. -
Prague Spring
Period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II -
Martin Luther King, Jr killed
Leader of the Civil Rights Movement -
Chicago DNC Convention protests
Violent confrontations between protestors and police lead to thousands of arrests. -
Former PAC released from prison
Banished to Galeshewe in Kimberley. -
Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co
Rules that jobs held by men and women need to be "substantially equal" but not "identical" to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act. -
Vietnam War extended into Cambodia
President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
