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Allowed for greater control for women over their home lives.
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The Peace Corps sent over young Americans to other countries to help establish democratic principles
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JFK begins his short, but influential presidency.
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Kennedy sent marines to Cuba to help overthrow Fidel Castro, failed and was a disaster.
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Angry mobs tried to prevent James Meredith, a black air force veteran from enrolling in th University of Mississippi.
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Silent Spring, an environmentalist book, was published in aan attempt to curb DDT use.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense period between Kruschev of Russia and Kennedy of America, ended without nuclear war.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letters from the Birmingham Jail, that depicted the humiliations of racial discrimination and segregation and defending civil disobedience, is published.
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I have a dream speech
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Military Coup overthrew the leader of the Vietnamese democracy.
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JFK was assassinated, ending his promising presidency quickly.
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Lyndon B. Johnson took over the presidency from the deceased Kennedy.
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Set a focus on the most racially divided state in the Union, and white students helped register black voters and teach the practices of democracy and black history in "Freedom Schools."
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It was published in 1964, the most significant civil-rights law in U.S. history, and it banned racial discrimination and segregation in public accomodations, banned bias in federally funded programs, and gave the federal government new powers to fight school segregation
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North Vietnamese attacked two American Destroyers and US orderd air strikes on North Vietnaemese naval bases.
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Set up medical funds to help needy Americans that is still in use today.
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Abolished the National Origins Act of 1921
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His autobiography became the main text of the rising Black Power movement.
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Invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disfranchised blacks.
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"You have the right to remain silent."
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Civil rights group for women that sought liberal change through the political system
Owed it's prominiince to Betty Friedan's The Feminine mystique (1963) -
Goal was to demand bilingual education and more Latino teachers.
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Goal was to protect the traditional ways of Native Americans.
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His death reflected the many uprisings and riots due to the equal rights of African Americans.
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The project that began with funding by JFK culminated this year.