Historical Documents: 1951-2000
May 17, 1954 -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Supreme Court case
1960 -- 23rd Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1960, ratified 1961
1962 -- 24th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1962, ratified 1964
1963 -- Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme Court case
July 26, 1963 -- Address on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
by John F. Kennedy
August, 1963 -- Civil Rights and Legal Wrongs
by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
August 28, 1963 -- I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964 -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Supreme Court case
1965 -- 25th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1965, ratified 1967
July 28, 1965 -- Why We Are in Vietnam
by Lyndon B. Johnson
1966 -- Miranda v. Arizona
Supreme Court case
April 27, 1969 -- Black Panther National Anthem
by Elaine Brown
November 8, 1969 -- The Ideology of the Black Panther Party
by David Hilliard
1971 -- 26th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1971, ratified 1971
1972 -- Unratified amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1972, expired unratified 1982
1973 -- Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court case
November 7, 1973 -- War Powers Resolution
Joint resolution of Congress
1974 -- United States v. Richard M. Nixon
Supreme Court case
1978 -- Unratified amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1978, expired unratified 1985
September 18, 1978 -- Camp David Meeting on the Middle East
by Jimmy Carter
1990 -- Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz
by the Guerrilla Girls
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