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The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.
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1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian...
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The 1960s (also called the '60s) was the decade that began...
- 1960 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 4 – Following the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state the previous year, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 11 – Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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- The Great Society. During his presidential campaign in 1960, John F. Kennedy had promised the most ambitious domestic agenda since the New Deal: the “New Frontier,” a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States.
- The War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, the War on Poverty was expensive–too expensive, especially as the war in Vietnam became the government’s top priority.
- The Fight for Civil Rights. The struggle for civil rights had defined the ‘60s ever since four black students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960 and refused to leave.
- The Radical ’60s. Just as black power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, other groups were growing similarly impatient with incremental reforms.
The 1960s became synonymous with the new, radical, and subversive events and trends of the period. In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers.
