
The 1960s History ‑ Events, Timeline & Facts | HISTORY
May 25, 2010 · 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. Student ...
1960s: Counterculture and Civil Rights Movement - HISTORY
Apr 22, 1970 · The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements ...
Greensboro Sit‑In ‑ Facts, Date & Definition | HISTORY
Feb 4, 2010 · The Greensboro Sit‑in was a major civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young Black students staged a sit‑in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina ...
The 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike That Drew MLK to Memphis
Jul 21, 2020 · “Class had always been an issue in the civil rights movement, but in the late '60s [it] was having to deal with it explicitly,” says Steve Estes, author of I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the ...
Birmingham Church Bombing ‑ Alabama, Civil Rights Movement, …
Jan 27, 2010 · Birmingham in the 1960s . The city of Birmingham, Alabama, was founded in 1871 and rapidly became the state’s most important industrial and commercial center.As late as the 1960s, however, it ...
10 Asian American Actors From Hollywood’s Golden Age
May 3, 2022 · Wong, whose birth name was Wong Liu-tsong, acted in more than 60 movies throughout her career, as well as on television, theater and radio.
Huge, Hovering and Silent: The Mystery of ‘Black Triangle’ UFOs
Jul 22, 2020 · In the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, triangular UFO reports hailed from across the U.S. and beyond.
Civil Rights Movement Timeline ‑ Timeline & Events | HISTORY
Dec 4, 2017 · The civil rights movement was an organized effort by black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s.
The Demise of the Mafia ‑ America & Sicily - HISTORY
Oct 14, 2009 · Then, in 1957, police in the small upstate New York town of Apalachin raided a gathering of more than 60 mobsters from around the country.
5 Women Who Ruled the Ancient World - HISTORY
Aug 31, 2023 · In 690, then in her 60s, she forced her youngest son, Emperor Ruizong, to abdicate, made herself the sole ruler and founded the Second Zhou Dynasty that would last 15 years.