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People who wanted nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy. -
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President Kennedy beats Republic V. President Nixon. Which makes him the youngest person ever elected President. -
61 home runs -
Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space on a flight that lasted 108 minutes. -
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Manifesto written by the Students for a Democratic Society. -
Died at the age of 36 of an overdose on barbiturates. -
First African American student at the University of Mississippi. -
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Confrontation between U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
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Hardly past his first 1000 days in office, Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet. -
Ed Sullivan Show -
The theme was "peace through understanding" -
Johnson wins over 61% of the popular vote. -
African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement was shot multiple times and died in Manhattan. -
The arrest of an African American man, Marquette Frye, by a white California Highway Patrol officer on suspicion of driving under the influence which started the riots. Riots were to end discrimination and mistreatment from police. -
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Los Angelos -
Refused military service because of religious reasons and was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his heavyweight title, suspended from boxing, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000. -
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First African American Supreme Court Justice. -
Attracted over 100,000 young people to San Francisco to join the hippies. They embraced free love, rock music, drugs, and social activism. -
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War which lasted from late January to early April. -
Shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. -
Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angelos, California. -
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Republican nominee and former vice president wins Presidential election -
Fights between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall inn, a gay bar. As the riots progressed, a gay rights movement was born. -
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after landing on their Apollo 11 spaceflight. -
Music festival which represented the 1960's counterculture, peace, love, and music during a time of social upheaval -
Counterculture rock concert, around 300,000 people attended. -
Protests against the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.