Forest Gump Timeline

  • DNA discovered

    DNA discovered
    the founder of DNA is Francis Crick. He relized that it looked like a twisted ladder.Ever since then science has changed .
  • Brown vs board of education

    Brown vs board of education
    This was for equal rights for black in school. The backlash they had from this was world wide. Brown won.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
  • Elvis

    Elvis
    Elvis was very famous at this time. He then went into the army. He stayed for three years
  • integration in university of Alabama

    integration in university of Alabama
    This is the fist time blacks and white went to school together. Many white people did not like this. This is when the world changed
  • Desegregation Of Alabama

    Desegregation Of Alabama
    Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll.
  • I have Speech

    I have Speech
    is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
  • JFK assasinated

    JFK assasinated
    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign.
  • The Black Panther Party

    The Black Panther Party
    Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
  • Ping Pong Diplomacy

    Ping Pong Diplomacy
    One of the first public hints of improved U.S.-China relations came on April 6, 1971, when the American Ping-Pong team, in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received a surprise invitation from their Chinese colleagues for an all-expense paid visit to the People's Republic.
  • Watergate Scandal

    Watergate Scandal
    Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery:
  • HIV and AIDS

    HIV and AIDS
    This was the first case of Hiv. It was spread because of the hippie movement. There was no cure then and still is no cure.