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Economic Averages: 1960
Average income: $5,315.00 a year
Average cost: Gallon of Gas: 25 cents
Average cost: New Car: $2,600.00 -
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Greensboro Sit-Ins
Series of non-violent protests in Greensboro, NC, which led to a new focus on Civil Rights issues and desegregation of public places, like Woolworth Department Store -
SNCC formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a non-violent way for young blacks to participate in the civil rights movement. -
New Frontier Speech
Part of JFK'S acceptance speech, and included ending social injustice and an advance in science/technology. -
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JFK Presidency
JFK was not able to serve out his full four terms due to his assassination -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban missile crisis definition. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
Feminine Mystique
Book written by Betty Friedan in 1963. It explores the life of a middle class, educated housewife in suburbia. The feminine mystique is something that traps a woman. It is a struggle between having a career and being a "good" mother and wife. -
I have a Dream Speach
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on Washington, in front of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C.
March on Washington, in full March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
JFK was shot in his own limo by a sniper as he drove with his wife. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency
He was sworn in by his father once news reached him that JFK was dead and served for 2 terms, or a total five years and two months -
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Great Society
Program Launched by Pres. Johnson in order to eliminate poverty and racial injustice -
Economic Opportunity Act
Initiated the creation of public welfare organizations managed by the federal government, and was a part of the war on poverty. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
This ended any kind of discrimination in the U.S. -
Tonkin Incident
A destroyer named Maddox was fired upon by Vietnamese, caused Lyndon B. Johnson to become in control of making sure no further aggression took place -
Medicare Act 1965
This act established medicare (health insurance for elderly) and medicaid (health insurance for the poor) -
Voting Rights Act 1965
This removed all the voting practices of the southern states such as literacy tests that was needed in order for blacks to be able to vote. -
National Organization for Women (N.O.W)
NOW was founded in Washington, D.C., by 28 women and men attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women. This organization was intended to work toward procuring and securing rights for women in a way similar to the NAACP's work for Black Americans. -
Black Power Party
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, formed the black panther party for self-defense (BPP), initially as a group to track incidents of police violence. Within a short time groups such as SNCC and BPP gained momentum, and by the late 1960s the Black Power movement had made a definite mark on American culture and society. -
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Tet Offensive
This was the largest military campaign in U.S. history, during the Vietnam war. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
MLK was murdered as he stood on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Stonewall Inn Riot
A disturbance that grew out of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Manhattan 's Greenwich Village in 1969. Such raids long had been routine, but this one provoked a riot as the crowd fought back. -
Man on the Moon
Astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, fulfilling President John Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
Economic Averages: 1969
Average Income: $8,540.00 a year
Average Cost: Gallon of Gas: 35 cents.
Average Cost: New Car $3,270.00