Egalitarian American (1947-1975)

Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers

North Korea troops invade South Korea

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of treason

The Korean War ends

Brown V. Board of Education

Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins

Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, integrated; Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road; Civil Rights Act of 1957

Beginning of lunch counter sit-ins (Greensboro, North Carolina); Birth control pill becomes available; Sit-ins begin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) founded

Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; Freedom Rides begin; Khrushchev and Kennedy meet in Berlin

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) publishes the Port Huron Statement; Michael Harrington, The Other America; Cuban missile crisis

Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president after assassination of John F. Kennedy Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique; Birmingham demonstration; Civil rights march on Washington

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Johnson reelected president

Civil Rights Act of 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr., leads march from Selma to Montgomery; United Farm Workers grape boycott

Clean Water Act Stokely Carmichael becomes head of SNCC and calls for "black power"; Black Panthers founded

Thurgood Marshall appointed first African American Supreme Court justice

Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated; Robert Kennedy assassinated; Wild and Scenic Rivers Act; Student demonstrations at Columbia University and elsewhere; Police and protesters clash at Democratic national convention

Huge antiwar protests in Washington, D.C.; Indians occupy Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay; Stonewall raid, New York City Woodstock and Altamont rock festivals; Weathermen's "Days of Rage" in Chicago

National Guardsmen kill four students at Kent State University

Pentagon Papers published

Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion; American Indian Movement members occupy Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford becomes president

End of the Vietnam War Farmworkers win right to bargain collectively with growers; Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Acts