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The SNCC or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group made up of mostly African American students who peacefully protested segregation. They wanted to cause change and spark direct action to be taken against racism. -
The first time a presidential Debate was televised took place in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Due to this new way of broadcasting the debate there were new factors to consider, the most important of these being appearance. This was revealed to be true because people who watched he debate mostly believed that Kennedy won, however people who only listened to it mostly believed that Nixon won. -
The Flintstones was an animated sitcom set in prehistoric times and was the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television. -
In the 1960 election John Kennedy emerged victorious over Nixon, and would become president with his VP Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space completed an orbit around the earth in 108 minutes. This success of the soviets pushed America to put more time and money into the "Space Race". -
In August of 1961 the Soviets had a wall constructed that would divide east and west Berlin. This would make it impossible for those in East Berlin to escape Soviet grasps. -
In October of 1961 Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record by 1 with 61 total home runs. -
The Port Huron Statement was a political manifest by the Students for a Democratic Society group. The paper discussed democratic ideals. -
Marilyn Monroe would die at the age of 36 due to sleeping pill overdose in her Los Angeles California home. -
On October 2nd of 1962 James Meredith became the first African American to attend the university of Mississippi. -
After Cuba's transition to communism under Fidel Castro Cuba allied themselves with the Soviets and received many nuclear warheads and missiles in secrecy. America was informed about this via U-2 spy plane and this started the crisis which lasted 13 days until a compromise was met between the Soviets and the Americans. -
"Dr. No" is the first ever film in the James Bond series to be released. The movie starts Sean Connery as James Bond who is a spy. -
In his influential speech King calls for the end to racism and equal civil an economical rights. -
While on his way to a convention center in Texas JFK was shot while in an open top Limo with his Wife, The governor of Texas and his wife as well as the driver. Later on Lee Harvey Oswald would be accused of JFK's murder. -
When the Beatles arrived they caused massive "Beatlemania" as the masses of America fell in love with their music. -
The Beatles came on the Ed Sullivan show and played their songs "All my Loving", "Til there was you", "She loves you", "I wanna hold your hand" and "I saw her standing there". -
At the fair hundreds of new innovations and products were displayed and fair was known as the pinnacle of mid 20th century culture and technology. -
Lyndon Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater in one of the largest landslides in U.S. History. -
Malcolm X, a popular figure who advocated for civil rights, was shot 21 times dying at the age of 39. -
A series of aggressive riots to end police mistreatment of colored people. The riots were started when an African american man was arrested under suspicion of driving intoxicated. -
Star Trek is one of the most influential sci-fi properties to this day and at the time was very popular after release. -
Played at the Los Angeles memorial Colosseum, the Green Bay Packers would beat the Kansas city chiefs with a score of 35-10. -
Ali refused to take part in the war when he was drafted do to devout religious beliefs. He became a conscientious objector and was sent to prison. -
The Beatles released their album Sgt. Pepper's which would go on to become the soundtrack of sorts to the "Summer of Love". -
A counterculture movement mainly made by younger people which focused on spreading love and acceptance. -
Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall a distinguished civil rights lawyer to be the first African American member of the supreme court in 1967. -
The Tet offensive was a secret attack planned by the northern Vietnamese during the Vietnamese New Year, Tet. This attack shifted the tides of the war towards the Vietcong. -
King was shot dead outside of his second floor room in the Lorraine motel by James Earl Ray. -
Robert Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded outside of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. -
The Democratic National Convention was accompanied by protesters who questioned our place in the Vietnam war. -
In 1968 the usage and selling of LSD was completely prohibited as the drug became illegal. -
in 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert H Humphrey becoming president in a landslide. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of violent demonstrations from gay rights activists in front of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village of New York City. -
The Apollo 11 mission saw the first ever time that humans reached other celestial bodies in our solar system. On July 20th Neil Armstrong became the first ma to step foot on the moon along with his team. -
Woodstock was a massive 3 day concert that thousands went to for peace, love and music. -
Hosted by the Rolling stones following Woodstock, the concert would see nearly 300,000 people and would invite problems with the thug security (Hell's Angels) who ended up killing an 18 year old.