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60's timeline project

By maddisonarriana

  • brown vs. board of education

  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery bus boycotts

  • Central highschool integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Elvis was inducted into the army

  • First Grammy Awards

    First Grammy Awards
    The first Grammy's were held in Los Angeles and New York. It had only 28 catagories. Frank Sinatra won his first Grammy's for his singing and best album cover.

  • J,F.K. elected as president

    J,F.K. elected as president

  • Freedom Riders

  • Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • the Feminine Mystique is published

  • March on Washington

  • assassination of John F. Kennedy

  • Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson

  • Lyndon Johnson re-elected

  • Assassination of Malcom X

  • March on Selma

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    Ceaser Chavez & farmworkers strike

  • Mediare and Medicaid established

  • Riots in WATTS

  • The Doors release first album

    The Doors release first album
    The Doors recorded their first album,"The Doors', in August 1966 and released on January 4, 1967. It features the breakthrough single "Light My Fire". The album was one of the albums that started the psychedelic rock movement.

  • Elvis and Priscilla Presley get married

    Elvis and Priscilla Presley get married

  • Beatles release Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Clubband

    Beatles release Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Clubband

  • Massacre at My Lai

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Assasination of Robert Kennedy

  • TET offensive

  • Founding conference for NOW

  • Nixon becomes President

  • Man on the Man

  • Period: to

    Woostock

  • Meredith Hunter killed

    Meredith Hunter was killed while at a Rolling Stone's concert. He approached the stage and was pushed away by members of the Hells Angels members. He later pulled out a revolver and was stabbed to death by Hells Angel member Alan Passaro.

  • Beatles offically break-up

  • First Earth Day observed

  • Kent State Protesters killed

    Kent State Protesters killed
    Many student protesters gathered at Kent State University May 4th. Guards started shooting at unarmed college students, the guards fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others.

  • Jim Morrison dies

    Jim Morrison died in his bathtub early in the morning from a heart attack. There are many conspiracies about how he died and where. Some people think he died from a drug overdose,

  • SALT 1 summit

  • Watergate scandal

  • title IX is passed

  • Roe vs. Wade passed

  • Wounded Knee and FBI clash

  • Elvis and Priscilla get divorced

  • OPEC oil embargo

  • Nixon resigns and Ford becomes President

  • ERA passes Congress as a proposed amendment