Key Dates

• 1960 November - Kennedy elected President
• 1961 December - Presidential Commission on the status of women established
• 1962 - Cuban missile crisis
• 1963 -

  • February - The Feminine Mystique published
  • April - King's Birmingham Campaign
  • August - March on Washington
  • November - Kennedy assassinated
  • - Johnson became president
• 1964-8 - Annual summer riots in black ghettos
• 1964 -

  • July - Civil Rights Act
  • Autumn - Berkeley Free Speech Movement began
  • November - Johnson elected president
• 1965 - March - First ground troops in Vietnam; King's Selma campaign
• 1965 - April - Medicare and Medicaid

  - Voting Rights Act
• 1965 - October - Nationality and immigration Act passed (implemented 1968)
• 1966 - June - Black Power chants on Meredith March; National organisation for Women established
• 1968 -

  • January - Tet offensive
  • April - King assassinated
  • November - Nixon elected President