https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g 1955-1964 en-us 2019-12-19 15:22:49 UTC 2019-12-20 14:03:03 UTC hello@padlet.com finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425928497 President Eisenhower is first president to conduct televised news conference. (Jan 19)]]> 2019-12-19 15:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425928497 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425931749  Roy Wilkins becomes executive secretary of the NAACP. (May) Little Rock, Arkansas, school board votes to adopt a policy of gradual school desegregation]]> 2019-12-19 15:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425931749 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425932993 (May 31) U.S. Supreme Court’s “Brown II” ruling orders public schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.”]]> 2019-12-19 15:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425932993 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425933343 (Dec. 1) Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins when Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.]]> 2019-12-19 15:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425933343 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425934018 (Nov. 6) Eisenhower becomes first Republican president to be reelected since William McKinley in 1900, but Democrats retain control of both houses of Congress.]]> 2019-12-19 15:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425934018 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425934410  (Dec. 20) Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott ends when all public buses are desegregated.]]> 2019-12-19 15:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425934410 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935105 (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.]]> 2019-12-19 15:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935105 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935436 (Jan. 20-21) President Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term.]]> 2019-12-19 15:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935436 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935639 (May 2) Joseph McCarthy dies of liver disease.]]> 2019-12-19 15:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935639 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935838 (June 17) U.S. Supreme Court’s Yates v. United States marks shift toward restoring free-speech rights.]]> 2019-12-19 15:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425935838 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425938648 (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]]> 2019-12-19 15:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425938648 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425939936 (July 29) President Eisenhower signs bill creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]]> 2019-12-19 15:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425939936 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425942896 US Unemployment reaches 5.2 million]]> 2019-12-19 15:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425942896 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425943180 (Sept. 15-27) Khrushchev visits the United States.]]> 2019-12-19 15:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425943180 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425943804 (Sept. 11) Congress passes bill authorizing issuance of food stamps to poor people. ]]> 2019-12-19 15:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425943804 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425944799 American automobile manufacturers begin making compact model cars, such as the Chevrolet Corvair, Ford Falcon, and Plymouth Valiant, to compete with foreign imports. ]]> 2019-12-19 16:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425944799 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425944961 (Apr. 9) NASA announces selection of the first seven American astronauts in its Mercury space program.]]> 2019-12-19 16:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425944961 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425951624 Death Row prisoner Caryl Chessman is executed in California, setting off a national debate on capital punishment (May 2)]]> 2019-12-19 16:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425951624 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425953509 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)]]> 2019-12-19 16:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425953509 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425955914 Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. ad 35 student protesters are jailed in Atlanta after a sit in (Oct 19)]]> 2019-12-19 16:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425955914 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425956599 President JFK issues an executive order requiring companies doing business with federal governments to take "affirmative action" to higher minorities (March 6)]]> 2019-12-19 16:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/425956599 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426220935 Vietnam War : The first US Helicopter units arrive in Vietnam (Dec 11) ]]> 2019-12-20 13:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426220935 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426229553 JFK announces that there will be a naval blockade against Cuba because of the collaboration with the Soviet Union.]]> 2019-12-20 13:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426229553 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426230066 MLK and other protesters were arrested for protesting.
(April 4-May 7)]]> 2019-12-20 13:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426230066 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426231748 US, Soviet Union, and UK signed a treaty to limit testing of nuclear weapons. (August 5)]]> 2019-12-20 13:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426231748 finley_thacker3035 https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426232157 JFK was assassinated (Nov 22)]]> 2019-12-20 13:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/finley_thacker3035/2fh44g690d3g/wish/426232157