The Sixties: Civil Rights, War, Welfare, & Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll
Kennedy and the Cold War
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Nation Building
New Frontier
JFK, the Cold Warrior
Alliance of Progress Program
Berlin Wall
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs Invasion
CIA
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Naval Quarantine / Blockade
Vietnam
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
France
Ngo Dinh Diem
Henry Cabot Lodge
The Black Freedom Movement
The Sit-ins
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North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College
Jim Crow
Deep South
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Marion Berry
Fisk University
Freedom Rides
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Greyhound Bus Lines
John Patterson
Alabama Governor
Eugene “Bull” Connor
Birmingham Police Commissioner
Montgomery Bus Boycott
National Civil Rights Successes
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Project C & the Children’s Crusade
Confrontation
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Birmingham, Alabama
16th Street Baptist Church
March on Washington
King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
John Lewis
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SNCC
Freedom Summer
The Vote
Freedom Schools
The Civil Rights Act
Kennedy Assassinated
Dallas, Texas. 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Violence Continues
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
Fannie Lou Hamer
Democratic National Convention
Malcolm X
Voting Rights Act
SCLC & SNCC
Combating Disenfranchisement
Viola Liuzzo
Jesse Jelms
Strom Thurmond
The Chicano Movement
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Segregation
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Little Schools of the 400
Head Start Programs
Poverty
Violence
Disenfranchisement
Hector p. Garcia
American G.I. Forum
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
United Farm Workers Movement
Rudy “Corky” Gonzales
Poor People’s March
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MECHA)
“I Am Joaquin” Poem
Brown Berets
Andres Tijerina
La Alianza
Land Movement
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Student Walkouts
Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO)
La Raza Unida Party
The Great Society
LBJ’s War on Poverty
Michael Harrington’s The Other America, 1962
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Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)
Volunteers in Service to America
Job Corps
Education
Head Start
Elementary & Secondary School Act
Higher Education Act
Educational Opportunity Act
Upward Bound
Health Care
Medicare
Medicaid
Child Health & Improvement Act
Social Welfare
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Appalachian Regional Development Act
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Robert Weaver
Water and Air Quality Acts
National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities
Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS)
Race and Immigration
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Hart-Cellar Act
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Johnson’s Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Battles & Tactics
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Cambodia
Search-and-Destroy Operations
The Soldiers
Tet Offensive
Domestic Criticism
Peace Negotiations
The Counterculture & Liberalism
Protests on Campuses
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
New Left Movement
Port Huron Statement, 1962
Free Speech Movement
University of California at Berkeley
Jack Weinberg
Mario Savio
Columbia University
University of Michigan
Yale University
Chicano Studies Programs
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Puerto Rican Studies Programs
Black Studies Programs
Women’s Studies Programs
Black Power Movement
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Watts Riots, 1965
Black Panther Party
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Stokely Carmichael
White Reaction
White Backlash
The Women’s Movement
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique, 1963
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Counterculture
Hippies
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
Communes
Lifestyles
Drugs
Sex
Music
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Bob Dylan
Folk Singers
Woodstock Music Festival
Anti-War Movement & Protests
Teach-ins
Hard-Hats Riots
1968
Robert Kennedy
New Left
Richard Nixon
Vietnamization
Kent State Massacres
Ohio National Guardsmen
Jackson State Killings
Vietnam as a Mistake
Civilian Abuses by American Troops
My Lai
Pentagon Papers
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