1960 |
- John F. Kennedy elected president.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded.
- Students for a Democratic Society established.
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1961 |
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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 |
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1965–1968 |
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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 |
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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 |
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