People
The American athlete who refused to be inducted into the U.S. military in 1966
Muhammad Ali
Archaeological evidence indicates that glass was first made here
Middle East
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 22, 1962
Supreme Court reinforced the separation between church and state
Engle v. Vitale
African American students who
sought admission to a formerly all-white high school in
Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
“The Little Rock Nine”
segregationist governor of Alabama who attempted to block the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965
George C. Wallace
city hosted the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Chicago
what year was the LASIK procedure approved in the United States
1974
unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the old doctrine “separate but equal” in public education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Middle Eastern conflict in 1967 that helped to establish a special relationship between Israel and the United States
Six-day War
The leader of United Farm Workers union established in California in 1962
César Chávez
The open-air music festival in upstate New York in August 1969
Woodstock
NOW, a women’s organization that promoted equal rights for women, was created in what year
1966
This 1965 ruling prohibited states from blocking married couples’ access to contraception
Griswold v. Connecticut
Benjamin Britten was commissioned to compose a work for the dedication ceremony for the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built to replace the old cathedral destroyed during which war
World War II
originally proposed the concept of stimulated emission
Max Planck
Erected in August 1961, the structure divided Germany’s former capital into East and West Berlin.
Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria begins.
June 5, 1967
In this case from 1967, the U.S.Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law banning interracial marriage between black and white spouses,
Loving v. Virginia
The center of the Western art world shifted form Paris to New York after
World War II
scientist proposed an experiment to measure the speed of light involving lanterns at great distances
Galileo Galilei
This neighborhood in San Francisco, named for a busy intersection east of Golden Gate Park
Haight-Ashbury
MLK jr. assassinated
April 4, 1968
In 1964, the Warren Court struck down the newspaper’s libel conviction
for an advertisement criticizing local officials
New York Times v. Sullivan
March 7, 1965, SNCC leader John Lewis and fellow marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers in Alabama
Bloody Sunday