1955
7 verified events recorded in 1955.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership George Meany · Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks · Martin Luther King Jr. · Montgomery Improvement Association · E.D. Nixon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House George Hunter White · Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Narcotics | confirmed | |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon Wesley Fishel · Michigan State University · CIA · Ngo Dinh Diem | confirmed | |
| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying Fred A. Hartley · National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders · Conservative donors | confirmed |