Timeline of Key Events

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    • 1948
      0.4% households owned a TV. Segregation ends in US military
    • 1949
      China became Communist increasing USA's fear of Communism spreading throughout the world: heightening the Red Scare
    • February 1950
      Senator McCarthy delivered his "enemies within" speech alleging communist infiltration of the state department, many were put on trial and found guilty without much proof
    • November 1952
      General Dwight D Eisenhower (Republican) is elected President
    • 1954
      55% households own a TV
    • May 1954
      Brown vs Topeka board of Education - Supreme Court declares racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
    • December 1955
      Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and so the Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
    • December 1956
      Supreme Court declared segregation on buses unconstitutional and Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
    • 1957
      Little Rock Protest Arkansas - showed extent of racism in the south despite Brown v Topeka ruling
    • 1958
      83.2% households own a TV
    • November 1960
      John F Kennedy (Democrat) elected President
    • 1961
      Greensboro sit-in
    • 1962
      Freedom Rides
    • August 1963
      March on Washington and Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream speech"
    • November 1963
      President Kennedy assassinated and succeeded by Lyndon B Johnson
    • 1964
      Civil Rights Act passed ending the Jim Crow Laws. Economic Oppurtunity Act passed providing training to disadvantaged youths aged 16-21. The Development Act passed providing money for replacing inner city slums with new homes
    • 1965
      Voting Rights Act and Malcolm X assassinated. Race riots in Watts, Los Angeles. Medicare and Medicaid introduced providing medical insurance for over 65's and hospital care for the poor
    • 1968
      Martin Luther King assassinated and Civil Rights Act passed which ended discrimination in housing
    • 1966
      National Organisation of Women (NOW) set up
    • 1972
      Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress but it failed to get ratification from 1/4 states necessary to become part of the Constitution
    • January 1973
      US Supreme Court rules in Roe v Wade that women have a right to an abortion
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