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Period: 1957 BCE to
southern christian leadership conference
An African American civil rights organization. Martin Luther King Jr, was it's first president. This organization had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and philanthropist who worked primarily in Mississippi. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott, A seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic middle deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Ford Mustang (introduced)
Car that was manufactured by Ford that created a new class of automobile known as the pony car. -
The twenty-fourth amendment
The 24th Amendment prohibits both congress and states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
The uniform time act (daylight savings) is signed
A United States federal law to “promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones” prescribed by the standard time act of 1918. -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was the first African American lawyer, serving as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. From October 1967-October 1991 -
Robert Kennedy’s Assassination
On June 5th, 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning he California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment.
