USA: Civil Rights Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
1947
A
HUAC hearings
2
Q
1949
A
Trial of Alger Hiss
3
Q
1950
A
McCarthy allegations
4
Q
1951
A
Rosenbergs executed
5
Q
1953
A
Eisenhower became president
6
Q
1954
A
- Senate condemned Joseph McCarthy
- Brown v Topeka
7
Q
1955
A
- Emmett Till murdered
- Montogomery Bus Boycott
8
Q
1957
A
- Little Rock
- Civil Rights Act
9
Q
1960
A
Start of the sit-ins at Greensboro
10
Q
1961
A
-J.F. Kennedy became president
- Start of the Freedom Rides
11
Q
1963
A
- The Feminine Mystique published
- Equal Pay Act
- MLK I have a dream speech
- Kennedy assasinated
12
Q
1964
A
- Freedom Summer in Mississippi
- Civil Rights Act
13
Q
1965
A
- Selma to Montgomery march
- Voting Rights Act
14
Q
1966
A
- NOW set up
- Black Panthers set up
15
Q
1968
A
King assassinated
16
Q
1969
A
- Nixon became president
- Anti-Vietnam March
17
Q
1970
A
Kent State University shootings
18
Q
1972
A
- Watergate arrests
- Nixon re-elected
19
Q
1973
A
- Watergate trials
- Roe v Wade verdict
- Senate hearings into Watergate
20
Q
1974
A
Ford replaces Nixon
