CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Sought equal rights and an end to segregation for African Americans and other minorities.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Ended Poll TaxesTwenty-Fourth Amendment

• NAACP lawyer who argued the school segregation case that the Supreme Court ruled on in 1954. He later became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

THURGOOD MARSHALL

• Supreme court case which ended segregation in schools

BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION

African-American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus started a year-long bus boycott.

ROSA PARKS

Boycott of public buses by African-Americans to end segregation on buses. After one year, the supreme court ruled segregation illegal.

MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

African-American civil rights leader who worked for integration in nonviolent ways. Famous for his “I have a Dream” speech.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

In August of 1963, more than 200,000 civil rights supporters marched in Washington D.C. This is where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

MARCH ON WASHINGTON

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis, TN. Riots and violence broke out as a result.

ASSASSINATION OF MLK

Gave the president power to outlaw literacy tests and send federal officials to make sure blacks got a fair chance to vote in elections.

VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965

Made segregation and discrimination illegal in many public places, such as hotels, restaurants, and theaters.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964

Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. The whole nation mourned his death.

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

Robert F. Kennedy was attorney general and played a key role in ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was against the Vietnam War. He ran for president, but was assassinated in 1968.

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Television made an impact on society in the 1950s, through news of the Vietnam war, Presidential debates of Kennedy and Nixon, and for entertainment.

TELEVISION

President Kennedy challenged the U.S. to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s in the space race against the Soviet Union. This has brought many benefits like communications, navigation, and weather forecasting.

SPACE EXPLORATION