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World - Hawaii becomes the 50th state.
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HC- King moves from Montgomery to Atlanta to devote more time to SCLC and the freedom struggle. He becomes assistant pastor to his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
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HC- King is found not guilty of tax fraud by a white jury in Montgomery.
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HC- King meets privately in New York with Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
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HC - King is arrested during a sit-in demonstration at Rich’s department store in Atlanta. He is sentenced to four months hard labor for violating a suspended sentence he received for a 1956 traffic violation. He is released on $2000 bond on 27 October.
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HC- President John F. Kennedy appoints Alabama native Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry U. S. Surgeon General.
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HC- Harper Lee of Monroeville wins the Pulitzer Prize for To Kill A Mockingbird. Alabama became an international bestseller
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HC- The Freedom Riders arrive at the Greyhound bus terminal in Montgomery where they are attacked by an angry mob.
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HC- Judge Hobart Grooms declared that segregation in Birmingham parks was unconstitutional.
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Book- Skeeter finishes her degree at Ole Miss and shortly after gets a job writing Miss Myrna's , a cleaning column, at the Jackson Journal.
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World - Lt. Col. John Glenn becomes first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth.
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HC- In retaliation for boycotts, the Birmingham City Commission ended its appropriation to a surplus food program.
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Book- Skeeter returns back home and she realized her best friend (the maid) was no longer there. She tried to know the truth but nobody told her the truth.
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World- The Cuban Missile Crisis was was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
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Book- Minny gets fired form Hilly's and can't find another job. Aibileen later tells her that Hilly went around telling everyone she knew that Minny was a thief.
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World- President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tex. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Book- Aibileen agrees to help Skeeter with her book. Skeeter doesn't understand why nobody would want to share their stories, but Aibileen tells her that her sharing things to her was ilegal.
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Book- After Minny gets fired she walks in when Skeeter an Aibileen are talking. First she gets mad, and then seconds later she says she will help too.
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Book- Celia ( Minny ex boss) thinks that Johnny won't want her anymore if she cant have babies because she had multiple miscarriages. Minny tries to tell her that he would still love her.
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Book- Hilly fired another maid because she stole one of Hilly's least favorite rings because Hilly wouldn’t give her a loan to help send her boys to college. Which helped because Skeeter got more maids for her book.
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Book- Minny confesses what she stole from Hilly. Minny made one of Hilly's favorite chocolate pies so Hilly wouldn't be as mad.
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HC- Bethel Baptist Church was bombed a third time, the explosion occurred across the street, but still shattered windows at the church and parsonage.
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Book- Elaine Stein is going to publish the book immediately after the book comes out Hilly thinks that the book is about Jackson, and starts blaming the maids for writing it.
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Book- Elaine Stein offers Skeeter a writing job in New York.
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Book- Skeeter Takes the Job but is sad she is leaving everyone behind.
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World - In six days of rioting in Watts, a black section of Los Angeles, 35 people are killed and 883 injured.
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World- Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, outlining the procedures for filling vacancies in the presidency and vice presidency.
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World- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.
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World- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, Calif.
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World- Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon.
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World- The Vietnam War
