The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd

A history timelineHP English 10

Johnson & Skinner

September 1963

• September 15-KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist church killing 4 girls

November 1963

• November 22-President Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

• Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

February 1964

• February 9—The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

March 1964

• March 8—Malcolm X separates himself from the Nation of Islam

June 1964

• June 21—three civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi by segregationist law enforcement officials (bodies are not found until August)

July 1964

• July 2—Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on color, race, nationality, religion, or sex.

July 1964

• July 31—Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up pictures of the moon

August 1964

• August 5—Gulf of Tonkin incident leads to the use of US ground troops in Vietnam in 1965.

August 1964

• August 24-27—Democratic National Convention nominates LBJ as its presidential candidate and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota as his vice-presidential running mate.

August 1964

• August 28-30—Philadelphia race riots were one of many race riots that year

Photo shows Harlem riot in 1964

October 1964

• October 14—MLK, Jr. receives Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent support of equal rights.

• He accepts the award in Oslo, Norway that December.

February 1965

• February 21—Malcolm X is assassinated

Summer 1965

• Voting Rights Act passes

• No more “tests” are required to vote

Newly registered voter in Selma, Alabama, in August 1965.

April 1968

• April 4, 1968—MLK, Jr. is assassinated

Bobby Kennedy’s reaction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E3-_z5YP0M

Photo sources• Slide #2 archives.lib.cua.edu• Slide #3 sciencenotes.files.wordpress.com• Slide #4 curtsheller.com/• Slide #5 anthonyflood.com/• Slide #6 ovimagazine.com/images/kkk/• Slide #7 sdgln.com/files/• Slide #8 jpl.nana.gov• Slide #9 history.navy.mil/• Slide #10 nixonfoundation.org/• Slide #11 glogstar.com/; nycbw.com• Slide #12 blog.syracuse.com• Slide #13 hotlaborlibrary.org/; media.photobucket.com• Slide #14 spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAvoting65.jpg;

photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/• Slide #15 3rdeyedrops.files.wordpress.com/; thestartingfive.net• Slide #16 xenohistorian.faithweb.com/