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The SDS, students for a democratic society, was founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber
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John F. Kennedy wins the presidential election
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JFK had his inagural address
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President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
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The Freedom Riders rode the interstate buses into segregated southern states in protest of the segregated seating arrangements
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The U.S. enters Vietnam and 16,000 troops were stationed in South Vietnam by the end of the year
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Book written by Betty Friedan which sparked the beginning of the second-wave feminism in the United States
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President Kennedy was assasinated as he was riding through Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Black people get the right to vote and racial segregation in schools end
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The Dean of Students Katherine Towle issued a letter to the students involved in political groups, telling them that they cannot use certain areas of the campus to spread their ideas.
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The United Front held its first rally to protest the ban of political advertisement on the campus of Berkley
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Hundreds of students from the University of California, Berkley surround a police car that was intended to remove a political activist and keeps the car in place for 32 hours. This was the start of the FSM.
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Around 1,500 to 4,000 students went to the Sproul Hall to protest the ban of using campus grounds to share political ideas
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The Berkley administrators caved into the movement and allowed certain areas during certain times of the day to be used by the political groups
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Malcolm X is killed by members of the Nation of Islam
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The SDS has its first march in Washington to protest the bombings and about 15,000-25,000 people attend this march
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100,000 people protest across the United States about the war
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale found the militant Black Panther party
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The Human-Be-In was focused on personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, ecological awareness, and reaching higher concsiousness with the help of psychedelic drugs
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Martin Luther King is shot and killed by James Earl Ray
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Police raid the Stonewall Inn starting the stoenwall riots
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Around 500,000 people gather for the most iconic music festival ever
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This was the first ever earth day
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4 unarmed protestors are shot and killed during protests at Kent State
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Vietnam War cease fire signed in Paris
