| 1960 | - John F. Kennedy elected president.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded.
- Students for a Democratic Society established.
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| 1961 | |
| 1962 | - United Farm Workers founded.
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| 1963 | - President’s Commission on the Status of Women issues report.
- Equal Pay Act.
- Baker v. Carr.
- Abington School District v. Schempp.
- March on Washington.
- President Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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| 1964 | - Civil Rights Act.
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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| 1964–1966 | - Congress passes most of Johnson’s Great Society domestic programs.
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| 1965 | |
| 1965–1968 | |
| 1966 | - Black Panther Party for Self-Defense founded.
- Miranda v. Arizona.
- National Organization for Women founded.
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| 1968 | - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
- American Indian Movement founded.
- Richard M. Nixon elected president.
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| 1969 | |
| 1970 | - Environmental Protection Agency established.
- Clean Air Act.
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| 1972 | - Title IX.
- “Trail of Broken Treaties” caravan to Washington, D.C.
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| 1973 | |