CHRONOLOGY

1960

  • John F. Kennedy elected president.

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded.

  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) established.

    • 1961

  • Freedom Rides challenge segregation.

    • 1962

  • United Farm Workers founded.

    • 1963

  • President’s Commission on the Status of Women issues report.

  • Equal Pay Act passes.

  • Baker v. Carr decided.

  • Abington School District v. Schempp decided.

  • March on Washington draws 250,000 participants.

  • President Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

    • 1964

  • Civil Rights Act passes.

  • Mississippi Freedom Summer Project conducts voter registration drives.

    • 1964–1966

  • Congress passes most of Johnson’s Great Society domestic programs.

    • 1965

  • Voting Rights Act passes.

    • 1965–1968

  • Riots erupt in major cities.

    • 1966

  • Black Panther Party for Self-Defense founded.

  • Miranda v. Arizona decided.

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founded.

    • 1967

  • Loving v. Virginia decision strikes down state laws against interracial marriages.

    • 1968

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.

  • American Indian Movement (AIM) launched.

  • Richard M. Nixon elected president.

    • 1969

  • Stonewall riots erupt.

    • 1970

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established.

  • Clean Air Act passed.

    • 1972

  • Title IX bans sex discrimination in education.

  • “Trail of Broken Treaties” caravan protests in Washington, D.C.

    • 1973

  • Roe v. Wade decided.