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 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8