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Social Changes In The 1960s
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Emancipation Proclamation
January 1 1863
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13th Amendment
1865
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14th Amendment
1868
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15th Ammendment
1870
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Plessy V. Ferguson
1896
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NAACP Established
1909
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CORE Established
1942
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Government Issued (GI) Bill of Rights
1944
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Smith V. Alwright
1944
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Yalta Conference
February 1945
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Harry Truman Taking the Oath of Office
April 12 1945
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"Fat Man" Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan
August 9 1945
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Truman Doctorine
1947
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Truman Loyalty Program
1947
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Journey of Reconciliation
April 1947
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Berlin Airlift
1948
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Mao's Communist Forces Took Over China
1949
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Henderson V. United States
1950
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Marilyn Monroe Icon of Glamour
1950
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McLaurin V. Oklahoma
1950
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Senator Joseph McCarthy - McCarthyism
1950
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Sweatt V. Painter
1950
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North Korea Invades South Korea
June 25 1950
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White Citizens' Council
1954
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Brown V. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
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Brown V. Board of Education II
May 31, 1955
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Death of Emmitt Till
August 28 1955
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
December 1955 - December 1966
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Rosa parks Arrested
December 1 1955
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SCLC Established
1957
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Little Rock Crisis
September 1957
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Sputnik I Launched
October 1957
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Sputnik II Launched
November 1957
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Radioactive Strontium 90 in Milk
1958
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SDS Established
1959
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JFK V. Nixon Election
1960
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First Sit-In in Greensboro, NC
February 1 1960
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SNCC Established
February 1 1960
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Sharon Statement
September 1960
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YAF Established
September 1960
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Freedom Rides
1961
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Bay Of Pigs
April 15 1961 - April 19 1961
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Bob Dylan Song "The Death of Emmett Till"
1962
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COFO Established
1962
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Port Huron Statement
June 1962
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James Meredith & Old Miss
September 1962
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Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16 1962 - October 28 1962
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JFK's Civil Rights Address to Nation
June 11 1963
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Project C
June 11 1963
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Thich Quang Duc
June 11 1963
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Medgar Wiley Evers Murdered
June 12 1963
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JFK in Berlin
June 26 1963
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March on Washington
August 28 1963
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George Wallace, University of Alabama, Vivian Malone and James Hood
September 1963
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Civil Rights Act
1964
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Freedom Summer
June 1964 - August 1964
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LBJ signs Civil Rights Act into Law
June 1964
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MLK receives Nobel Peace Prize
October 1964
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Selma March
1965
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Malcolm X Assassinated
February 21 1965
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MLK Protests Vietnam & Poor Peoples Campaign
March 1965
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Watts' Urban Riots
August 11 1965
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March Against Fear
June 1966
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James Meredith Shot
June 6 1966
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Stokely Carmichael Speech In Miss
July 1966
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Black Panther Party Established
October 1966
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Rebellion On Campus Video
1968
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Tom Hayden Flew to Vietnam
1968
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Tommie Smith & John Carlos In Olympics
1968
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COINTELPRO Targets Panthers
November 1968
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AIM occupies Alcatraz Island
November 1969
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SDS Disintegrates
December 1969
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SDS Ended
1970
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Fannie Lou Hamer Died
1977
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"Grease"
1978
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Ella Baker Died
1986
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Rage Against The Machine Cover
1992
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Vietnam
Eleanor Roosevelt Born
October 11 1884
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Chisholm Born
November 30 1924
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Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis Established
1950
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Richard Nixon Served As President
1953 - 1961
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President Dwight EisenHower Issues Executive Order 10450
April 27 1953
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Geneva Agreement
1954
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Partitioned the 17th Parallel
April 1954
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Daughters of Bilitis Founded
1955
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Frank Kameny Fired from Army Map Service
1957
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Hanoi backs Insurgents in South
1959
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Start of US "personnel" present
1959
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Communists create the NLF party in south vietnam
1960
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Kameny & Jack Nichols Founded Mattachine Society
1961
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Eleanor Roosevelt Dies
1962
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Mr. Postman Motown first #1 Hit
1962
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Betty Friedan
1963
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South Vietnamese Army suffers major loss to VC
January 1963
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Timothy Leary Fired from Harvard University
1963
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JFK appointed Eleanor Roosevelt Chairman of Status of Women Group
October 11 1963
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JFK Assassinated
November 22 1963
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NY Worlds Fair - First use of word Hippie
1964
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Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
February 9 1964
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USS Maddox in Gulf of Tonkin - Fired Upon
August 2 1964
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Maddox and Turner Joy in Gulf of Tonkin
August 4 1964
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U.S. Jets Bomb N. Vietnam
August 5 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passed Congress
August 7 1964
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Viet Cong attack American Planes in South Vietnam
November 1964
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White Women in SNCC
November 1964
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Major Hotel housing Americans Attacked
December 24 1964
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Gay Rights Activist Picketed White House in Protest
1965
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Viet Cong attack U.S. Special Forces Camp
February 1965
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Operation Rolling Thunder Commences
March 2 1965
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Beatles "Yellow Submarine, Nowhere Man, Eleanor Rigby"
1966
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NOW Established
1966
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U.S. military announces use of chemicals (Agent Orange)
September 23 1966
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Diggers called for "Gathering of the Tribes"
January 1967
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Fall of Motown Musical Dominance
1967
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Operation Cedar Falls
January 1967
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YIPPIES Established
1967
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General Westmoreland Called Demonstrations Unpatriotic
April 1967
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Monterey Pop
June 1967
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Summer of Love
July 1967 - August 1967
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Vietnam Protest Summer
July 1967 - August 1967
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Stop the Draft Week
October 1967
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March on the Pentagon
October 21 1967
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Majority of Americans Say "War Was A Mistake"
November 1967
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NY 585 protestors arrested
December 8 1967
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Festival of Life
1968
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George Wallace Ran for president as 3rd party
1968
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Nixon attempts to stop Alexander V. Holmes County
1968
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Troy Perry Founds Metropolitan Community Church
1968
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Battle of Khe Sanh
January 21 1968
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Tet Offensive
January 31 1968
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Contraversial Photo of Viet Cong Officer Executed
February 1 1968
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Old Capital City Hue recaptured
February 25 1968
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Robert McNamara resigns
February 29 1968
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Senator Eugene McCarthy NH primary
March 12 1968
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My Lai Massacre
March 16 1968
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Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy
March 16 1968
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LBJ will not seek re-election
March 31 1968
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MLK Assassinated
April 4 1968
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Paris peace talks between U.S. and Hanoi
May 10, 1968
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Democratic National Convention
August 1968
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Miss America Pageant Protest
September 7 1968
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LBJ halts bombing in N. Vietnam
October 31 1968
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Richard Nixon Elected President
November 1968
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Frances M. Beale "Double Jeopardy"
1969
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Woodstock
1969
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Nixon Orders Bombing of Cambodia
March 16, 1969
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Marches at Berkeley
May 1969
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Apollo 11 Lands on Moon
July 20 1969
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Ho Chi Minh Dies
September 3 1969
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Charles Manson Killing Spree
October 1969
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The Moratorium
October 15 1969
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My Lai Massacre made public
November 1969
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Nixon Makes Silent Majority Speech
November 3 1969
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Second Moratorium Takes Place
November 15 1969
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Altamont Concert
December 1969
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Altamont Speedway Near Livermore
December 1969
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Most "Hippies" Appropriated Into Mainstream Culture
1970
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Toni Cade Bambara "The Black Woman"
1970
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Kent State University Officers Fire upon Demonstrators
May 4 1970
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2 Students Killed at Jackson State College
May 14 1970
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Nixon attempts to stop Swann V. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
1971
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Ed Sullivan Show Ended
June 6 1971
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Shirley Chisholm Ran for Democratic Nomination
1972
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Roe vs Wade
1973
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War Powers Act
1973
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Homosexuality deemed a mental disorder
December 15 1973
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Last Americans Evacuated from Saigon
April 19 1975
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End of U.S. military "personnel" present
1976
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Conservative Christians Create movment elects Reagan
1980
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Timothy Leary Dies
1996
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Government apologizes for firing Kameny
2009
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Kameny Dies - Becomes National Coming Out Day
October 11 2011
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