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Truman Exectutive Order 9808
Truman signs this order unsegregating the military and allowing blacks, whites, browns, yellows and everything inbetween to work+fight together. -
Joeseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy statrs declaringg that there are commis everywhere creating a second red scare -
Segregation
The Surpreme court rules that Brown V. Board of education is unconstitutional -
Voting
Women and men have equal say or voted equally -
ILO
Employers can no longer discriminate people whom they may hire. -
Letter of birmingham
MLK delivers his I have a dream Speech and he also talks about how he believes that segregation shall be abolished. -
Salary
Women start getting their salary cut by 60 % -
Shrooms
Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms -
SDS
Boston SANE & fledgling Students for a Democratic Society hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters. -
National farm workers
Ceasar Chavez creates a labor union for all farm workers -
Watts riot
Big race riot ending in 6 days leaving 35 dead -
Maryjuana
Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time. -
LSD
FBI releases files on LSD -
Cabinet
Weaver is the first black person to work for the presdient on his cabinet. -
Beauty
1st beaty pageant is held in Atlanta City -
Housing
Blacks and other minorities were allowed to leave the ghettos and realitors were unable to deny housing based on skin color and sex etc... -
national women liberation convention
1st national women liberation convention is held in chicago -
MLK assassignated
James Earl Ray assassinates Martin Luther King, while he is standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In outrage of the murder, many blacks take to the streets in a massive wave of riots across the U.S.
