CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1955–1956 |
Montgomery bus boycott |
| 1956 |
John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage |
| 1960 |
Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative |
| February 1, 1960 |
Sit-in movement began |
| 1960 |
John F. Kennedy elected president |
| April 1961 |
Bay of Pigs invasion |
| 1961 |
Freedom rides |
| 1961 |
Berlin Wall erected |
| 1962 |
Supreme Court ruling on New York school prayer |
| 1962 |
The Other America |
| October 1962 |
James H. Meredith desegregated the University
of Mississippi |
| October 1962 |
Cuban missile crisis |
| June 1963 |
George Wallace took stand in schoolhouse door |
| 1963 |
Gideon v. Wainwright |
| 1963 |
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” |
| August 1963 |
March on Washington |
| September 1963 |
Birmingham church bombing |
| November 1, 1963 |
Ngo Dinh Diem murdered |
| November 22, 1963 |
John F. Kennedy assassinated November 22, 1963 |
| 1964 |
Civil Rights Act |
| 1964 |
Martin Luther King, Jr., awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| August 1964 |
Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| 1964 |
Lyndon B. Johnson elected president |
| March 1965 |
Selma to Montgomery march |
| August 1965 |
Voting Rights Act |
| August 1965 |
Watts riots |
| 1965 |
Immigration Act |
| 1966 |
Miranda v. Arizona |
| 1966 |
Department of Housing and Urban Development created |
| January 31, 1968 |
Tet Offensive |
| March 31, 1968 |
Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for reelection |
| April 4, 1968 |
Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated |
| June 6, 1968 |
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated |
