-
Jackie Robinson enters MLB
Jackie is the first african american to enter the MLB -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A little black girl was denied access to a school that was close to her home and they took it took the courts -
French defeated at Bien Dien Phu
French done lost -
Geneva Accords
A plan invlolving Indochina and Vietnam -
Death of Emmett Till
A boy who was beat to death for kissing a white girl -
Rosa Parks arrested
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man -
Montgomery bus boycott
-
SCLC founded
An african american civil rights program -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated parts of southern United States -
James Meredith Enters Ole Miss
James Meredith is first African American let in to a white only college -
MLK's "I have a dream speech"
Martin Luther King delivers his famous I have a dream speech -
Civil rights act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination based on color religon sex or religon -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Vietnamese attacked us destroyers in gulf of tonkin -
Period: to
Operation Rolling Thunder
Boosting morale in Saigon -
Voting rights act of 1965
Enforced voting rights enforced by 14th and 15th amendment -
us signs paper to end vietnam war
War ended -
Pentagon papers released
Gov papers released -
Tet Offensive
An offensive attack unleahed by the Viet Cong -
massacre at mu lai
Many people killeed -
MLK assassinated
MLK was assassinated for his battles for civil rights -
LBJ doesn't re-elect
He dont go back to office idgaf -
NVA attacks saigon
a city that got attacked by NVA -
Wopodstock
Many hippies much music
