Civil rights timeline

• 1947 - HUAC hearings
• 1949 - Trial of Alger Hiss
• 1950 - McCarthy allegations
• 1951 - Rosenbergs executed
• 1953 - Eisenhower became president
• 1954 (Red scare) - State condemned Josph McCarthy
• 1954 - (civil rights) Brown v Topeka
• 1955 - Emmett Till murdered
• 1955 - (after murder of emmett till) - Montgomery Bus boycott
• 1957 - (school desgreagation) - Little Rock
• 1957 - civil rights act
• 1960 - Start of the sit-ins and greenboro
• 1961 - (new president) - John F Kennedy became president
• 1961 - Freedom Riders
• 1963 - Martin Luther King's speech
• 1963 - Kennedy assassinated
• 1963 - Equal Pay act
• 1963 - (magazine) - The Feminen Miystique published
• 1964 - Civil rights act
• 1964 - Freedom summer in mississipi
• 1965 - voting Rights act
• 1965 - Selma to Montgomery march
• 1966 - NOW and Black Panthers set up
• 1968 - King assassinated
• 1969 - Nixon became president
• 1969 - Anti-Vietnam march
• 1970 - Kent tate university shootings
• 1972 - Watergate arrests and Nixon re-elected
• 1973 - 'Watergate' trials
• 1973 - Roe v Wade verdict
• 1973 - Senate hearings into Watergate
• 1974 - President ford replaces Nixon