JFK & Cilvil Rights Era Timeline

By hanat

  • Brown vs. Board of education

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Little Rock Nine integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Greensboro, NC Sit-in

  • John F Kennedy is sworn in as president

  • The Peace Corps is created

  • Freedom Rides

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall is Constructed

  • Astronaut John Glenn Comes to the First American to orbit the earth

  • The 24th Amendment is ratified outlawing polls taxes

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The assassination of Medgar Evers

  • March on Washington - MLK delivers his " I have a Dream Speech"

  • JFK is assassinated And LBJ becomes President

  • Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby

  • Freedom Summer

  • Civil Rights Act of1964

  • Economic Opportunity Act is enacted

  • The Assassination of Malcolm X

  • Selma, Al March

  • Medicare And Medicaid are established

  • Voting Rights Act is established

  • Watts Riots

  • Miranda Vs; Arizona

  • The Black Panther Party is formed

  • Detroit riots

  • Poor people Campaign

  • The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968