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Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Alliance for Progress
American troops in Vietnam
Bay of Pigs invasion
Birmingham church bombing
Black student enrolled at University of Mississippi
Boynton v. Virginia
Cuban missile crisis
Days of Rage
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Equal Pay Act
Feminine Mystique
Grape strike
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Immigration Act of 1965
John F. Kennedy assassinated
John F. Kennedy elected president
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Lyndon Johnson elected president
Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”
Miranda v. Arizona
Moon landing
My Lai massacre
National Organization for Women founded
Nixon Doctrine
Occupation of Alcatraz
Operation CHAOS
Port Huron Statement
President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Report on the Status of Women
Richard Nixon elected president
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Secret bombing of Cambodia
Stonewall Riot
Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
US air strikes in Vietnam
Vienna Summit
Woodstock
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Betty Friedan
César Chávez
Earl Warren
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eugene McCarthy
George Wallace
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J. Edgar Hoover
James Farmer
James Meredith
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Medgar Evers
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Thurgood Marshall
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