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The 1960s in America

Table of Contents

Ralph Abernathy




Abortion




Bella Abzug




Advertising




Affirmative Action




Agent Orange Controversy




Spiro T. Agnew




Agriculture




Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)




Air-Conditioning




Air Force Academy Cheating Scandal




Air Pollution




Alaska Earthquake




Edward Albee




Alcatraz Island Occupation




Lew Alcindor




Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)




Alice’s Restaurant




Woody Allen




Altamont Music Festival




American Bandstand




American Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968




American Indian Movement (AIM)




American Nazi Party




Apollo 1 Disaster




Apollo Space Program




Diane Arbus




Architecture




Arms Race




Art Movements




Arthur Ashe




Assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.




Opening of the Astrodome




Automobiles and Auto Manufacturing




Baby Boomers




Joan Baez




Baker Resignation




James Baldwin




Barbie and Ken Dolls




Baseball




Basketball




Bay of Pigs Invasion




Be-ins and Love-ins




The Beach Boys




Beach Films




Beat Generation




The Beatles




The Bell Jar




Berlin Wall




Leonard Bernstein




Daniel and Philip Berrigan




Biafran War




Bilingual Education Act




Birmingham March




Birth Control




Black Christian Nationalist Movement




Black Liberation Front




Black Like Me




“Black Manifesto”




Black Panthers




Black Power




Black United Students




Blow-up




Julian Bond




Bonnie and Clyde




Boston Five Trial




Boston Strangler




The Boys in the Band




Branch Banks




Richard Brautigan




British Invasion




Gwendolyn Brooks




H. Rap Brown




James Brown




Jim Brown




Brown Berets




Lenny Bruce




William F. Buckley, Jr.




Warren Burger




Business and the Economy




Busing




Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid




Camelot




Cancer




Career Girl Murders




Stokely Carmichael




Rachel Carson




Fidel Castro




Catch-22




Cat’s Cradle




Censorship




Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)




Wilt Chamberlain




Chappaquiddick Scandal




Charlie Brown




César Chávez




John Cheever




Caryl Chessman




Chicago Riots




Chicago Seven Trial




Chicano Movement




Chicano: Twenty-five Pieces of a Chicano Mind




Shirley Chisholm




Church Bombings




City of Night




Civil Rights Act of 1960




Civil Rights Act of 1964




Civil Rights Act of 1968




Civil Rights Movement




Eldridge Cleaver




Cold War




Communes




Communications




Computers




Conant Report




Condon Report




Concorde




The Confessions of Nat Turner




Congress of Racial Equality




Conservatism in Politics




Cool Hand Luke




Corporate Liberalism




Counterculture




Credit and Debt




Crimes and Scandals




Walter Cronkite




Cuban Missile Crisis




Cults




Cyclamates




Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia




Popular Dances




Angela Davis




Days of Rage




Death of a President




Death of Hippie




Decency Rallies




Democratic National Convention of 1968




Demographics of the United States




Detroit Riot




Joan Didion




Joe DiMaggio




Everett Dirksen




Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution




Dr. Strangelove




Invasion of the Dominican Republic




Doors




Draft Resisters




Drug Culture




Bob Dylan




East Village




Easy Rider




Eat a Bowl of Tea




Economic Opportunity Act of 1964




The Economy of Cities




The Ed Sullivan Show




Education




Adolf Eichmann




The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test




Engel v. Vitale




Environmental Movement




Nora Ephron




Equal Pay Act of 1963




Equal Rights Amendment




Billie Sol Estes




Medgar Evers




Marianne Faithfull




Fallout Shelters




Farm Subsidies




Mia Farrow




Fashions and Clothing




Federal Aid to the Arts Bill




The Feminine Mystique




Feminist Movement




Lawrence Ferlinghetti




Film




Bobby Fischer




Fitzpatrick Drug Death




Flast v. Cohen




Peggy Fleming




The Flintstones




Flower Children




Folk Music




Jane Fonda




Food Stamp Program




Football




Abe Fortas




Joe Frazier




Free Love




Free Speech Movement




Freedom Rides




Freedom Summer




Betty Friedan




Gay Liberation Movement




Gemini Space Program




Genetics




Genovese Murder




Geodesic Domes




Gideon v. Wainwright




Gidget Films




Allen Ginsberg




Nikki Giovanni




Barry Goldwater




Golf




The Graduate




Grape Workers’ Strike




Grateful Dead




Great Society Programs




Greenwich Village




Dick Gregory




Griffith-Paret Fight




Griswold v. Connecticut




Gross National Product (GNP)




Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner




Che Guevara




Gulf of Tonkin Incident




Haight-Ashbury




Hair




Hairstyles




Hampton-Clark Deaths




Lorraine Hansberry




Happenings




Darlene Hard




Hare Krishnas




Clement Haynsworth, Jr.




Head Start




Heart of Atlanta Motel v. the United States




Heart Transplants




Carol Heiss




Hell’s Angels




Jimi Hendrix




Eva Hesse




Higher Education Act




Hippies




Hitchcock Films




Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter




J. Edgar Hoover




House Made of Dawn




Federal Housing Laws




Howard Hughes




Human Sexual Response




Hubert Humphrey




Hurricane Betsy




Hurricane Camille




Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte




I Am Curious Yellow




“I Have a Dream” Speech




Immigration




In Cold Blood




In the Heat of the Night




Indians




Inflation




International Trade




Interracial Marriage Laws




Interstate Highway System




Jesse Jackson




Jacobellis v. Ohio




Mick Jagger




James Bond Films




Japanese Imports




Jefferson Airplane




The Jetsons




Job Corps




John Birch Society




Lyndon B. Johnson




Janis Joplin




Katzenbach v. McClung




Edward “Ted” Kennedy




Jacqueline Kennedy




John F. Kennedy




Robert F. Kennedy




Kennedy-Nixon Debates




Kerner Commission Report




Khrushchev’s UN Visit




Kidney Transplants




Billie Jean King




Coretta Scott King




Martin Luther King, Jr.




Henry Kissinger




Sandy Koufax




Ku Klux Klan (KKK)




Lasers




League of Revolutionary Black Workers




Timothy Leary




Liberalism in Politics




Liberty incident




Roy Lichtenstein




Sonny Liston




Literature




Vince Lombardi




The Lord of the Rings




LSD




Lucky Come Hawaii




Eugene McCarthy




George McGovern




Rod McKuen




Marshall McLuhan




Robert McNamara




MAD magazine




Lester Maddox




Norman Mailer




Malcolm X




Vivian Malone




Manson Murders




Mickey Mantle




March Against Death




March on Selma




March on Washington




Marijuana




Mariner Space Program




Roger Maris




Marriage




Thurgood Marshall




Peter Max




Willie Mays




Media




Medicare




Medicine




Medium Cool




Memoirs v. Massachusetts




Mercury Space Program




James H. Meredith




Eve Merriam




Metafiction




Microwave Ovens




Midnight Cowboy




Billy Mills




Minimalism




Miniskirts




Minutemen




Miranda v. Arizona




Miss America Pageant of 1968




Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)




Jessica Mitford




Mod




Monkees




Marilyn Monroe




Monterey Pop Festival




Moon Landing




Moratorium Day




Motion Picture Association of America Rating System




Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Act of 1965




Motown




Mountain of Gold




Music




Edmund Muskie




My Lai Incident




Ralph Nader




The Naked Ape




Joe Namath




Nation of Islam




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)




National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence




National Indian Youth Council (NIYC)




National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE)




National Organization for Women (NOW)




National States Rights Party




Native American Fishing Rights




New York Riots




New York Times Company v. Sullivan




New York World’s Fair




Newark Riot




Newport Folk Festivals




Jack Nicklaus




Pat Nixon




Richard M. Nixon




Nobel Prizes




Nuclear Reactors




Nuclear Test Ban Treaties




Nureyev Defection




Oakland Riots




Joyce Carol Oates




Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE)




Oh, Calcutta!




Madalyn Murray O’Hair




Olympic Games of 1960




Olympic Games of 1964




Olympic Games of 1968




One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest




Yoko Ono




Op Art




Organized Crime




Lee Harvey Oswald




Arnold Palmer




Paris Peace Talks




Floyd Patterson




Peace Corps




Levitating of the Pentagon




People’s Park, Berkeley




Percy Murder




Photocopying




Photography




Marge Piercy




The Pill




Planet of the Apes




The Plum Plum Pickers




Poetry




Poor People’s March




Pop Art




Pop Psychology




Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.




Power Failure of 1965




Prayer in Schools




Presidential Election of 1960




Presidential Election of 1964




Presidential Election of 1968




Elvis Presley




Leontyne Price




Prosperity and Poverty




Protest Songs




Pueblo




Pulsating Radio Waves




Mary Quant




Quasars, Discovery of




Radio Free Europe




Betsy Rawls




Reapportionment Revolution




Religion and Spirituality




Rock Operas




Nelson A. Rockefeller




Rolling Stones




Rosemary’s Baby




Philip Roth




Route 66




Arthur Rubinstein




Wilma Rudolph




Dean Rusk




Bill Russell




Jim Ryun




San Francisco as Cultural Mecca




Sonia Sanchez




SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy)




School Desegregation




Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney Deaths




Science and Technology




Scorpion Disappearance




SCUM Manifesto




Sealab




Seattle World’s Fair




Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band




Sex and the Single Girl




Sex-Change Operations




Sexual Revolution




Sam Sheppard




Silicone Injections




Leslie Marmon Silko




Neil Simon




Simon and Garfunkel




Sinatra Kidnapping




Sit-ins




Six-Day War




Skyjackings




Slaughterhouse-Five




Margaret Chase Smith




Tommie Smith and John Carlos Protest




Smoking and Tobacco




The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour




Social Satires




Sonny and Cher




Susan Sontag




The Sound of Music




Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)




Space Race




Speck Murders




Benjamin Spock




Sports




Gloria Steinem




Steppenwolf




Stonewall Inn Riots




Stranger in a Strange Land




The Strawberry Statement




Barbra Streisand




Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)




Student Rights Movement




Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)




Summer of Love




Super Bowl




Supersonic Jets




Supreme Court Decisions




Supremes




Surfing




Jacqueline Susann




Switched-on Bach




Elizabeth Taylor




Teachers Strikes




The Teachings of Don Juan




El Teatro Campesino




Telecommunications Satellites




Television




Tennis




Megan Terry




Tet Offensive




Texas Tower Murders




Thalidomide




Theater




Theater of the Absurd




Hunter S. Thompson




Virgil Thomson




Thresher Disaster




Tiny Tim




To Kill a Mockingbird




Tommy




The Tonight Show




Travel




Trieste Dive




Trips Festival




Triton Submarine




Twiggy




Twist




Two thousand one: A Space Odyssey




Anne Tyler




U-2 Spy Plane Incident




Underground Newspapers




Unemployment




Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)




Unions and Collective Bargaining




United Mexican American Students (UMAS)




John Updike




Urban Renewal




Vatican II




Videocassette recorders (VCR)




Vietnam War




Voting Rights Legislation




George Wallace




War on Poverty




War Resisters League




Andy Warhol




Earl Warren




Warren Report




Washington, D.C., Riots




Water Pollution




Watts Riot




Annie Dodge Wauneka




The Way to Rainy Mountain




Weathermen




Weight Watchers




Welfare State




What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?




White Panthers




Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?




The Wild Bunch




Wilderness Act of 1964




Wolfman Jack




Women in the Workforce




Women’s Identity




Woodstock Festival




World Health Organization (WHO)




Mickey Wright




Yippies




Andrew Young




Young Americans for Freedom




Young Lords




Youth Culture and the Generation Gap




Frank Zappa




Major Films of the 1960’s




Major Broadway Plays and Awardsof the 1960’s




Most-Watched U.S. Television Showsof the 1960’s




Time Line: Major U.S. Legislation of the 1960’s




Time Line: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in the 1960’s




Best-Selling U.S. Books in the 1960’s




Time Line: Popular Musicians of the 1960’s




Top-Selling U.S. Recordingsof the 1960’s




Time Line: Science and Technology of the 1960’s




Winners of Major Sports Events in the 1960’s




Statistical Look at the United States in the 1960s




Time Line of the 1960’s in America




Pulitzer Prize Winners in the 1960’s




Publisher’s Note