Timeline

• 1947

  HUAC hearings
• 1949

  Alger Hiss Trial
• 1950

  McCarthy Allegations
• 1951

  Rosenbergs executed
• 1953

  Eisenhower became president
• 1954

  • Senate condemned Joseph McCarthy
  • Brown vs Topeka
• 1955

  • Emmet Till murdered
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1957

  • Little Rock
  • Civil Rights Act
• 1960

  Start of Greensboro sit ins
• 1961

  • JFK became president
  • Start of the 'Freedom Rides'
• 1961

  • JFK became president
  • Start of 'Freedom Rides'
• 1963

  • The feminine mystique published
  • Equal pay act
  • MLK 'I have a dream' speech
  • Kennedy assisinated
• 1964

  • Freedom Summer in Mississippi
  • Civil Rights Act
• 1965

  • Selma to Montgomery march
  • Voting Rights act
• 1966

  • NOW set up
  • Black Panthers set up
• 1968

  King assasinated
• 1969

  • Nixon became president
  • Anti-Vietnam march
• 1970

  Kent state university shootings
• 1972

  • Watergate arrests
  • Nixon re-elected
• 1973

  • Watergate trials
  • Roe vs Wade verdict
  • Senate hearings into washington
• 1974

  • Ford replaces Nixon