Space Exploration
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert Kennedy
Voting Rights Act
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Act
Cesar Chavez
Television
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Younger brother of JFK, senator running for president, supported civil rights, assassinated in 1968.
Linda Brown had to travel a mile to the black school when The Supreme Court ruled it was illegal for schools to be segregated.
Law that banned all literacy tests and poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting.
36th President, signed into law the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
A civil rights leader who fought for equal rights for African Americans. He encouraged peaceful protesting. He was assassinated in 1968.
An African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a us to a white man; her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
A peaceful demonstration against segregation, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech.:
Latin American civil rights activist who cofounded United Farm Workers union, led a nationwide boycott of grapes as a way of improving the rights and conditions of migrant workers.
He was the Brown's lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case; the first African American supreme court justice.
Most homes had at least one by 1960s, brought world news and events into American homes.
35th president, supporter of civil rights, assassinated in 1963.
Law that prohibited discrimination based on color, race,or religion in public places, desegregated schools and withheld funding from schools that did not desegregate, and make it illegal to discriminate against people of all races and genders when applying for a job.
The protest where African Americans refused to ride the bus in Montgomery, Alabama until segregation of public tranportation was outlawed: Martin Luther King, Jr. became a leader for civil rights during this time.
Race against Soviet Union to explore space, US put first man on the moon in 1969.
