1960s timeline

  • lunch counter sit ins

  • SNCC formed

  • Counter culture

  • Kennedy beats johnson in electin by a margin

  • albany movement

  • The new frontier launched by kennedy

  • berlin wall built

  • cuban missile crisis

  • quarintine

  • Rachel carsons book "silent springs'

  • kennedy assanation

  • lee harvey oswald killed

  • march on washington

  • Birmingham confrontation

  • Mratin Luther King Jr's "i have a dream speech

  • Feminine mystique by Betty Friedan

  • U.S. involvement in vietnam increased

  • johndons great society program

  • murder of edgar evers

  • freedom summer

  • Johnson wins election

  • the gulf of tonkin resolution

  • we shall over come speech

  • votin literacy tests

  • Ralph Nader Unsafe at any speed is published

  • Latinos march in santa fae New Mexico

  • chinese cultural revolution

  • Six day war takes place in the middle east

  • Lindon Johnson tells public that he is resigning from the next presidency

  • Race riots / Vietnam war protests

  • tet offensive begins

  • wood stock festival