New Social Movements and Vietnam Black Power Feminism Free Speech Vietnam War Antiwar movement Counterculture
Chronology 1962 Port Huron Statement Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1963Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on Washington Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Johnson President 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom Summer Harlem riots 1965Malcolm X assasinated Voting Rights Act Immigration Reform Act Watts riot Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed 1966National Organization for Women organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant protest 1969Stonewall riot “Indians of All Nations” occupy Alcatraz island Fred Hampton murdered by FBI
New York Times photograph made after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination
Malcolm X and Martin Lulther King, Jr.
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party pamphlet, 1970
Students for Democratic Society poster, 1972
Wounded Knee protest, 1973
Women in Labor Force, Millions Percentage Employed Single Married With children6NA ” 6-17NA
Cold War - Vietnam War Chronology 1961Bay of Pigs 1962 Port Huron Statement Cuban Missile Crisis 1963Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on Washington Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Johnson President 1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom Summer Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965Malcolm X assasinated 1966National Organization for Women organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968Tet offensive Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant protest 1969Stonewall riot “Indians of All Nations” occupy Alcatraz island 1970The Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State 1972Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment (not ratified by states) 1973Paris peace agreement ends war in Vietnam for America
Vietnam War map
My Lai massacre Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong officer.
My Lai massacre
Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968
Kent State, May 4, National Guard
Kent State, May 4, Student Killed