Counter-Culture of the 1960's

By droberto
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    The Counter-Culture of the 1960's

  • Birth Control Pill Gets FDA Approval

    The impact of The Pill was even more radical. It meant sex need not lead to pregnancy. But it wasn't just another form of contraception, it was an equalizer, a liberator, and easy to take. For the first time in human history, a woman could control her sexuality and determine her readiness for reproduction by swallowing a pill smaller than an aspirin. Critics warned that The Pill would spawn generations of loose, immoral women; what it spawned was generations of empowered women who are better equ

  • JFK Inaugural Address

    Inaugural Address

  • Assasination of JFK

    Assasination of JFK

  • LBJ is Sworn in as President

    LBJ is Sworn in as President

  • The Beatles play on Ed Sullivan

    Beatles on Ed Sullivan

  • Berekely Free Speech Movement

    Berkeley in the 1960'sHundreds of students at the University of California, Berkeley spontaneously surround a police car as it attempts to remove a political activist. Roughly 3,000 students will join the 32-hour protest marking the beginning of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

  • First Teach-in

    First Teach-in
    Organized by SDS at the University of Michigan. The event was attended by 3,500 and began with a discussion of the Vietnam War and ended with a plan to take over the University.

  • First Reported Draft Card Burning

    Draft Card BurningsThe first public burning of a draft card occurs in protest to the Vietnam War. It is coordinated by the anti-war group of students, National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

  • Summer of Love

    San FranciscoA social phenomenon that accured in the summer of 1967 when as many as 100,000 people descended upon the Ahigh-Ashbury neighborhood of San Franciso, initiating a cultural and political shift.

  • Monterey Pop Festival

    HendrixFirst widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, attracting as many 90,000 people. Artists included Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. This would become the template for future music festivals, most noteably Woodstock..

  • Protests at Columbia University

    Columbia University ProtestsStudents seize several campus buildings to protest the university's involvement with the Institute for Defense Analysis and university plans to build a gym on a park in a neighboring black community. The protestors will be removed from the buildings on April 30 after a violent battle with police.

  • Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    MLK Assassination

  • Robert F. Kennedy Assasinated

    RFK Assassiation

  • Protests at Chicago DNC Convention

    Chicago ProtestsThousands of protestors converge on the DNC to protest the war in Vietnam. Violent confrontations between protestors and police lead to thousands of arrests.

  • Nixon Wins Presidency

  • Man on the Moon

    Moon Landing

  • Woodstock

    Woodstock

  • Days of Rage-The Weathermen

    Days of Rage-The Weathermen
    The Weathermen, a radical political organization frowing out of the SDS, launch the days of rage in Chicago. For three days, a few hundred protestors will vandalize public and private property to demonstrate their willingness to employ violence in an attempt to end the war in Vietnam.

  • Kent State Shootings

    Kent State