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Cold Conflict-The WW11 Museum
As World War 11 transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the cold war. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Board of Education (1954, 1955) The case that came to be known as Brown v. The Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. -
Start of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott took place December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rose Parks, an African American women, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
Emergence of the Little Rock Nine
On September 2, 1957 the night prior to what was to be the teens' first day in Central High classrooms, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered the state's National Guard to block their entrance. Faubus said it was for the safety of the nine students. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic March on Washington for jobs and Freedom, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. More than 3,000 members of the press covered this historic march, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
JFK Assassination
In 1960, John F Kennedy (JFK) was the youngest person elected president of the United States. His wife, Jacqueline ( Jackie) Kennedy, was the First Lady, known for her style and sophistication. In 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas. Six weeks after his assassination, Idlewild Airport in New York City was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's transition to President
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963 following the assassination of President Kennedy and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
Despite Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminate in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by Congress on July 2,1964. Congress passed public law 88-352 (78 stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or other national origin. -
Start of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist Leninist and black power energy organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. -
Muhammed Ali Refuses to fight in the Vietnam War
On April 28, 1967, with the United States at war in Vietnam, Ali refused to be included into the armed forces, saying " I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong." On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years. -
MLK Assassination
In April 1968. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. After King's murder, riots (violent confrontations including theft, destruction of property, or vandalism) broke out in over 100 American cities. -
Bobby Hutton Assassination
On the night of April 6, 1968, Hutton was killed by Oakland Police officers after Eldridge Cleaver led him and twelve other Panthers in an ambush of the Oakland Police, during which two officers were seriously wounded by multiple gunshots. -
Jame's Brown Say it Loud, I'm Black and I am Proud release
By summer 1968, James Brown had seen enough. Racial tensions, rioting in the streets and murder of an iconic civil -rights leader inspired the singer to release the most politically charged song of his career: "Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)." -
Indo Pakistani War
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in the East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971. -
End of the Vietnam War
Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975. On April 30, 1975, NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, effectively ending the war.