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Important Events of the 60's

Swinging Sixties, here I come!

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Greensboro Sit inBlack Students refused to leave a Woolworth restaurant, starting sit ins trend among collge towns
Bay of PigsAnti-Castro Uprising, failure
Alan Shepard and the Freedom CapsuleFirst American in space
Kennedy's AssassinationNOvember 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX
Civil Rights Act, 1964prohibited discrimintation in employment based on race, religion, origin, or sex
Gulf of Tonkin Resolutionauthorized military action in Southeast Asia
MLK's assassinationoccured in 1968 in Memphis, TN
July 20th, 1969First humans, Armstrong and Aldrin, walk on the moon
Woodstock3 day fair, icon for hippies and "free love"
Martin Luther KIngwinner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for efforts in Civil Rights Movement
Silent Springbook by Rachel Carson explaining harmful effects of DDT
The Feminine Mystiquebook by Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women
Robert KennedyNY senator assassinated in 1968
Black Panthers Founded1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
Cuba Embargostarted by Kennedy in 1961 stopping all trade with Cuba


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