Middle Cold War Timeline

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    Became established
  • Earl Warren

    Chief Justice
  • Election of 1952

    Eisenhower had defeated Stevenson by a landslide in this election.
  • Dept. of Health, Education, and Walfare (HEW)

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • desegregation

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    The day of her arrest
  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • Southern Manifesto

  • Election of 1956

    In a rematch, Eisenhower yet again beat Stevenson in this election.
  • Highway Act

  • Little Rock Crisis

  • Civil Rights Commission

  • Civil Right Acts of 1957

  • Jackie Robinson

    Became involved in the NAACP
  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

  • Nonviolent protest

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Appointed