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Kennedy & Johnson

  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    a young black man was brutaly murdered in Money Mississippi for saying hi to a young whie girl
  • Little Rock Crisis

    Little Rock Crisis

    students are beaten by racist whites on school grounds
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    The 1960's

  • New Frontier

    New Frontier

    Kennedy proposes tax cuts to get the nation out of the recession and create NASA.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    the soveits are supplying Cuba with nuclear technology stolen from the United States
  • Berlin Crisis

    Berlin Crisis

    tensions in berlin are rising. the US has an air ldrop of supplies for people
  • Integration of Ole Miss

    Integration of Ole Miss

    an ex-navy seal was banned from going to ole miss based on his skin color
  • Cubn Missile Crisis

    Cubn Missile Crisis

    an American U2-spy plane captured pictures of nuclear weapons in cuba possitioned at the United States
  • Brimingham Alabamna

    Brimingham Alabamna

    Bull Connor and his poilice force asulted civil rights activists in Birmingham, setting K-9 dogs and fire hoses on them
  • Warren Comission

    Warren Comission

    Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed JFK, with what was called the "magic bullet"
  • 24th Amendement

    24th Amendement

    poll taxing was prohibited
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    LBJ finally passed the Civil Rights Act giving African Americans rights
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin

    Johnson has control over all war activities
  • Selma March

    Selma March

    activists plan to march to Selma Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. only to be brutally assulted be Bull Connor's police force
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    blacks now have the right to vote with out any restrictions
  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots

    African American Civil RIghts activists targeted white owned businesses withfire bombs
  • Ralph Nader

    Ralph Nader

    wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, saying how cars are death traps on wheels
  • National Organization for Women

    National Organization for Women

    NOW was the largest women's organiztion group founded for women by women
  • American Indian Movement

    American Indian Movement

    AIM was established by americna indians to fight for their land
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    the north vietnamese launched surprise attacks on the U.S. troops
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock

    the counter culture and hippies came together for a concert in New York that lasted for 3 days
  • Earth Day

    Earth Day

    created by Gaylord Nelson Senator of Wisconsin to clean up the earth for one day
  • War of Powers Act

    War of Powers Act

    giving power over all wars back to congress not to the president