Hidden figures timeline for histocial reference

Other dates also included for students to begin thinking about the timeline and setting of the film hidden figures.

1. Flowers for Algernon / Gattaca / Hidden Figures – 50s and 60s Timeline
1895 - First use of ‘retardation’ in Psychiatric usage
1915 – NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
1917 – Langley research complex built at NACA
1930 – Human ‘computers’ begin being hired at NACA
1968 – Declaration of the general and specific rights of the mentally retarded
1947 – 1991 The Cold War
1946-1953 - A study on radioactivity fed radioactive cereal to students with learning difficulties
1950 – Watson and Crick discover DNA and the ‘Double Helix’
1951 – Coloured TV introduced
1950-1954 – McCarthyism (anti-communist sentiment) in the U.S.A.
1953 – Katherine Johnson begins at NASA
1954 – NBC Airs first late night TV show
1954 – Brown V Board of Education declares segregation in schools unconstitutional and invalid
1955 – Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott
1955 – The space race begins
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on TV for the first time
1957 – Sputnik 1 (U.S.S.R.) orbit
1958 – NASA formed
1959 – Flowers for Algernon (Book) released
1961 – Yuri Gagarin (U.S.S.R.) becomes the first human in space orbit
1961 – Hidden figures time period
1962 – Presidents panel on mental retardation
1963 – the Equal Pay Act forbids wage discrimination in the U.S.A.
1963 – Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream speech’
1964 – Civil rights abolishes segregation
1968 – Martin Luther King is assassinated
1968 – Declaration of the General and specific rights of the mentally retarded
1969 - Apollo 11 = first man on the moon
1970s – Frederick Sanger sequences DNA
1996 – Dolly the sheep successfully cloned
1997 – ‘Gattaca’ (film) released
2010 – Obama sign’s ‘Rosa’s Law’ to replace the phrase ‘mental retardation’ with ‘intellectual disability’
Lorenzo