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1960-1969 |
1960 Woolworth lunch
counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., marks beginning of civil rights movement
1963 King delivers "I Have A Dream" speech. Black church in
Birmingham, Alabama, bombed, killing four girls. President John F. Kennedy
assassinated.
1965 Riots break out in Watts section
of Los Angeles. Malcolm X assassinated
1965-73 Vietnam War
1966 National Organization for Women (NOW) founded, initiating
"second wave" feminist movement
1968 King assassinated. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
1969 U.S. astronauts land on the
moon. Stonewall riots in New York City initiate gay liberation movement.
Woodstock Festival held near Bethel, New York |
1960 Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
1964 John Cheever, The Swimmer.
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Dutchman
1965 James Baldwin, Going to
Meet the Man
1968 Norman Mailer, The Armies of
the Night
1969 N. Scott Momaday, The Way
to Rainy Mountain |