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Rosa Parks would not let a white person take her spot, when she was told she had to.
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The School board in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order requireing that nine african American students be admitted to Central high.
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Four Friends decided to go and have a sit-in at a lunch counter that only catered to white people.
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African Americans boarded buses that refused to integrate
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he applied fot a transfer to the university of Mississippi. Which wouldn't let him until the U.S. government sent troops in.
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Dr. King leads protests, and the police assault the protesters and King goes to jail
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Dr. King marches on Washington in support of the new civil rights act
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millitary coup launches attack and overthrows Diem
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North Vietnamese torpedo boats had fired on two American Destroyers
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senate and house passed thus authorizing the president to take all necessary action to repel any army that attacks American forces.
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Johnson signs Civil Rights act into law
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Dr. King recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for his work
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Started Bombing campaign against North Vietnamese
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Kings leads a march to build support for a new voting rights law
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sent troops to help South Vietnam
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Congress passes this law
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the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese launched a huge suprise attack, but ended up failing
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American troops had invaded cambodia
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The waring sides signed an agreement, which ended the war.
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last U.S. Troops leave
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North Vietnam invades South Vietnam. with know one to stop them. They took over
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the U.S. Embassy is overrun