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1960 Lunch Counter Sit-ins
In Greensboro, NC and Nashville, TN blacks weren’t being served at lunch counters, so they went and sat down and wouldn’t leave until they got served. -
1961 JFK elected president
John F. Kennedy was elected president over Nixon, but only by a small amount -
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
Unsuccessful attempt by the CIA to get Fidel Castro out of power -
1961 The Albany Movement
they were protesting about segregated train stations, this event happened to be a failure because they tried to do too many things at one time. -
1962 Silent Spring
book written by Rachel Carson, this book was said to widely launch the Environmental movement -
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
closest the United States has even come to being in a nuclear war with Russia -
1963 The Feminine Mystique
Written by Betty Friedan, really started the feminist movement -
1963 March on Washington
This showed support for Kennedy and his civil rights bill and it showed national unity. 2 hundred thousand people, white and black, attended. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I Have A Dream Speech. -
1963 JFK is assassinated
JFK was shot and killed during a parade in Dallas, Texas -
1964 Freedom Summer
Protesting in Mississippi because of the lack of voting rights -
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964
forbade discrimination on the basis of sex or race. -
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave the president ultimate power to do whatever he wanted during a war -
1965 Unsafe at Any Speed
book written by Ralph Nader during the Consumer Movement that said most American automobiles were not safe. -
1966 Miranda vs. Arizona
Warren Court decision that you had to be read your rights when you were getting arrested -
1968 Tet Offensive
Secret bombings by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese on the U.S. troops -
1968 My Lai Massacre
U.S. soldiers killed over about 567 old men, women, and children in a Vietnamese town -
1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Violence broke out between protestors and police forces; most of the country was siding with the police force. -
1968 Election
Richard Nixon became president. -
1969 Woodstock
Music and art festival in Bethel, New York, 500,000 young people from across the country attended -
1965 Selma March
Marching for voting rights in Alabama, the marchers were stopped and beaten by cops. This was shown on national TV and the nation realized how bad the problem was
