Frise historique - frise chronologique historique

Term of Lyndon B. Johnson
1963 à 1969
Term of Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953 à 1961
Term of Ronald W. Reagan
1981 à 1989
Term of Richard M. Nixon
1969 à 1974
Term of John F. Kennedy
1961 à 1963
1950
Term of Gerald R. Ford
1974 à 1977
1960
1970
Term of Jimmy Carter
1977 à 1981
1980
Term of William J. Clinton
1993 à 2001
Term of George Bush
1989 à 1993
1990
Term of Barak H. Obama
2009
Term of George W. Bush
2001 à 2009
2000
2010
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a boycott of Montgomery buses that lasts over a year.
1955
Nine black students integrate
with white students at Central
High School in Little Rock, AR.
President Dwight Eisenhower
sends the paratroopers in to
ward off any violence.
1957
More than 250,000 civil rights demonstrators march on Washington, DC, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech.
1963
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wins the
Nobel Peace Prize.
1964
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN, where had gone to give a speech to striking garbage workers.
1968
Unita Blackwell, founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, becomes the first black woman mayor in the history of Mississippi
in the city of Mayersville. She had once been denied the right to vote there.
1978
Vanessa Williams is crowned the first black Miss America.
1983
Barack Obama becomes
first African American
president of the United
States.
2009
Colin Powell becomes the first black US Secretary of State.
2000