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President Eisenhower is first president to conduct televised news conference. (Jan 19)

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Roy Wilkins becomes executive secretary of the NAACP. (May) Little Rock, Arkansas, school board votes to adopt a policy of gradual school desegregation

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(May 31) U.S. Supreme Court’s “Brown II” ruling orders public schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.”

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(Dec. 1) Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins when Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.

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(Nov. 6) Eisenhower becomes first Republican president to be reelected since William McKinley in 1900, but Democrats retain control of both houses of Congress.

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(Dec. 20) Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott ends when all public buses are desegregated.

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(Jan. 5) President Eisenhower announces his Eisenhower Doctrine on U.S. policy in the Middle East.The doctrine stated that the United States would use armed forces upon request in response to imminent or actual aggression to the United States.

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(Jan. 20-21) President Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term.

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(May 2) Joseph McCarthy dies of liver disease.

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(June 17) U.S. Supreme Court’s Yates v. United States marks shift toward restoring free-speech rights.

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(Sept. 9) President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This act created the United States commission on civil rights to investigate systematic discrimination in areas such as voting

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(July 29) President Eisenhower signs bill creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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US Unemployment reaches 5.2 million

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(Sept. 11) Congress passes bill authorizing issuance of food stamps to poor people.

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(Sept. 15-27) Khrushchev visits the United States.

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American automobile manufacturers begin making compact model cars, such as the Chevrolet Corvair, Ford Falcon, and Plymouth Valiant, to compete with foreign imports.

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(Apr. 9) NASA announces selection of the first seven American astronauts in its Mercury space program.

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Death Row prisoner Caryl Chessman is executed in California, setting off a national debate on capital punishment (May 2)

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Civil Rights Act of 1960 becomes law-established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote (May 6)

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Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. ad 35 student protesters are jailed in Atlanta after a sit in (Oct 19)

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President JFK issues an executive order requiring companies doing business with federal governments to take "affirmative action" to higher minorities (March 6)

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Vietnam War : The first US Helicopter units arrive in Vietnam (Dec 11)

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JFK announces that there will be a naval blockade against Cuba because of the collaboration with the Soviet Union.

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MLK and other protesters were arrested for protesting.
(April 4-May 7)

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US, Soviet Union, and UK signed a treaty to limit testing of nuclear weapons. (August 5)

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JFK was assassinated (Nov 22)