Timeline Flashcards
The Great Migration
1890s to 1960s
Mormon Church abolishes polygamy
1890
Azusa Street Revival
1906-1915
Founding of United Negro Improvement Association
1914
Women’s Suffrage
1920
Elijah Muhammad leads Nation of Islam
1934-1975
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dec 1955 to Dec 1956
Second Vatican Council
1962-1965
JFK assassinated
Nov 1963
Malcolm X takes hajj to Mecca
April 1964
Reagan gives speech in favor of Barry Goldwater that catapults him to political prominence
Oct 1964
Malcolm X assassinated
Feb 1965
Muhammad Ali refuses to enter military service
Feb 1966
Six Days War
June 1967
MLK assassinated
April 1968
Robert Kennedy assassinated
June 1968
Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography releases report
1970
Roe v. Wade
1973
Nixon resigns as president
1974
Elijah Muhammad dies
1975
Operation Entebbe
June 1976
Mormon church allows black leaders
1978
Iranian Revolution
Jan to Feb 1979
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Nov 1979
U.S. failed attempt to rescue hostages
April 1980
Iran Iraq War
Sept 1980 to June 1988
Jerry Falwell publishes “If I Should Die Before I Wake”
1986
Koop delivers speech to Liberty University
Jan 1987
Stuart Matis commits suicide
2000
Terrorist attack on World Trade Center
Sept 11 2001
California Passes Prop 8
Nov 2008
U.S. kills Osama bin Laden
May 2011
U.S. scheduled to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
2014