Social Events

  • McCarthyism

    The accusation of people being communists in America
  • Brown v BOE

    The case fighting for desegregation of schools
  • Civil Rights Movement

    black people fighting for equality
  • The Television

    The introduction of TV covered all social and political news. I
  • Freedom Rides

    College student efforts to derail segregation
  • Formation of the UFW

    A group created by Cesar Chavez that protested for equal rights for Hispanic laborers.
  • I Have A Dream Speech

    MLK's speech on freedom and desegregation
  • March On Washington

    A peaceful march during the Civil Rights Movement
  • Civil Rights Act

    The act that ended segregation. This is the most important event because it gave black people the equality they fought so hard for so that they could be viewed as American citizens- not an inferior race.
  • Delano Table Grape Strike

    Farmers refused to produce grapes until they received equal rights
  • MLK Jr's Assassination

    MLK was shot and killed in Tennessee.
  • RFK Assassination

    Robert F Kennedy was shot after winning the election
  • Apollo Landing

    A race between the US and soviet union to land on the moon- America got there first