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Events & Issues in US History 1940-1980

Events & Issues: 1940-1980
  • Fair Employment Act (1942)
  • United Nations
  • The Korean War
  • Medicare
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Peace Corps
  • NAACP
  • SCLC
  • SNCC
  • Black Panthers
  • Freedom Summer
  • March on Washington
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Civil Rights Act (1957)
  • Civil Rights Act (1964)
  • Immigration Act (1965)
  • Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
  • McCarthyism
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Little Rock High School
  • Freedom Riders
  • Anti-Poverty Act (1964)
  • Segregated Lunch Counters
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Lynching of Emmett Till
  • Black Power
  • Freedom Schools
  • Selma March
  • March Against Fear
  • Black Muslims
  • Civil Rights Act (1960)
  • Voting Rights Act (1965)
  • Watergate
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By John Simkin (john@spartacus-educational.com) © September 1997 (updated January 2020).

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