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1963-64:
"Medgar Evars Lullaby" - song lyrics by Richard Weissman |
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1964:
1964 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
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1964:
23rd.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1964:
24th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
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1964:
"A Time for Choosing" Speech - Ronald Reagan (10/27) |
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1964:
Acceptance Speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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1964:
Address on Behalf of Sen. Barry Goldwater - Ronald Reagan |
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1964:
Bell v. Maryland - desegregation of MD restaurants |
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1964:
"Birmingham Sunday" - song lyrics by Richard Farina |
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1964:
Charles de Gaulle- France's Attitude Toward US Policy
in Vietnam |
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1964:
Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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1964:
Civil Rights Act - multiple docs. relating to this legislation |
|
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1964:
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
accepts the
Republican nomination for president in rousing defiance, at the
Republican National Convention, San Francisco, CA (7/17)
(audio
file) |
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|
1964:
"The
Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax" - speech by Gov. George
Wallace, AL (7/4) |
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1964:
"Daisy" spot commercial for LBJ's campaign (video file) |
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1964:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1964:
Documents Related to the Tonkin Gulf Incident |
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1964:
Economic Opportunity Act |
|
|
1964:
"Fidel Castro for Lyndon Johnson" - verbal message
given to ABC News reporter (Feb.) |
|
|
1964:
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-NY)
denounces
"extremism" in his own party, at the Republican National Convention,
San Francisco, CA (7/14) |
|
|
1964:
Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution |
|
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1964:
"Johnson
Swamps Goldwater and Kennedy Beats Keating; Democrats Win Legislature"
- The New York Times - front page with full text |
|
|
1964:
Letter to Elijah
Muhammad from Malcolm X (3/11) |
|
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1964:
Malcolm X on the March on Washington |
|
|
1964:
Malcolm X warns of "the Ballot or the Bullet" - Washington Heights, NY
(3/29) |
|
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1964:
Mario Savio's speech before the FSM sit-in (12/3) |
|
|
1964:
New York Times v. Sullivan |
|
|
1964:
Nobel Prize
Acceptance Speech - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oslo, Norway (12/10) |
|
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1964:
"On the Civil Rights Movement" - Governor George Wallace (7/4) |
|
|
1964:
President Johnson's Message to Congress August 5 Regarding
the
Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
|
|
1964:
Radio and Television Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights
Bill - LBJ (7/2) |
|
|
1964:
Republican Party National Convention videos |
|
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1964:
Reynolds V. Sims |
|
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1964:
SNCC
Position Paper on women in the movement (November) |
|
|
1964:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the
Movement (Nov.) |
|
|
1964:
Surgeon
General's Report on Smoking and Health (386 pages) |
|
|
1964:
The War on Poverty - speech by Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
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1964-70:
Federal Aid to Education, 1964-1970 - chart |
|
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1965:
1965 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1965:
Address to Congress on Voting Rights - LBJ |
|
|
1965:
"Aggression From the North," State Department White
Paper on Vietnam (2/27) |
|
|
1965:
Alabama Literacy Test |
|
|
1965:
"American Foreign Policy and International Law:
South Vietnam's Right of Self Defense" - Dean Rusk (4/23) |
|
|
1965:
"Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis" -
William Fulbright (9/15) |
|
|
1965:
"The
Bracero Program and its Aftermath: An Historical Summary" -
report prepared for the use of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture
(4/1) |
|
|
1965:
Commencement Address at Howard University ("To Fulfill These
Rights" speech) - LBJ (6/4) |
|
|
1965:
"Cutting Our Losses in South Viet-Nam" - Paper by the
Under Secretary of State George Ball (June) |
|
|
1965:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act |
|
|
1965:
Excerpts
from McGeorge Bundy's Memo to President Johnson (2/7) - on policies in
South Vietnam |
|
|
1965:
Executive Order 11246 -
Equal Employment Opportunity |
|
|
1965:
"The Great Blackout" - articles from
Life Magazine (11/19) |
|
|
1965:
Griswold v. Connecticut |
|
|
1965:
Immigration Act of 1965 |
|
|
1965:
Inaugural Address of Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
|
1965?:
Louisiana Literacy Test |
|
|
1965:
Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks upon Signing the Immigration Bill |
|
|
1965:
May 2nd Movement (Sept.) |
|
|
1965:
Memorandum From Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to
President Johnson on the Subject of a Program of Expanded Military and
Political Moves with Respect to Vietnam (7/1) |
|
|
1965:
Note from Jack Ruby to attorney Elmer Gertz revealing the
assassin's despair and paranoia (9/9) |
|
|
1965:
Older Americans Act |
|
|
1965:
"Our God is Marching
On" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (3/25) |
|
|
1965:
"Peace Without Conquest" speech - LBJ address at John
Hopkins
University (4/7) |
|
|
1965:
Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting
Rights Act - LBJ (8/6) |
|
|
1965:
Remarks with President Truman at the Signing in Independence,
MO of the Medicare Bill - LBJ (7/30) |
|
|
1965:
Social Security Amendments (7/30) |
|
|
1965:
Speech Given by President Johnson at
Johns Hopkins University (4/7) |
|
|
1965:
State Department
White Paper on Vietnam (2/27) |
|
|
1965:
Summary of
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson
(7/20) on Increasing U. S. Presence in Vietnam |
|
|
1965:
Telegram from LBJ's Assistant to Dr. King inviting him to the
signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
|
|
1965:
Thu Vao Nam [Letters to the South] - the Hanoi
Politburo's letter to the Communist Party in the South, outlining the
Party's commitment to a protracted war strategy |
|
|
1965:
Voting Literacy Test |
|
|
1965:
Voting Rights Act |
|
|
1965:
Watts Riots-
California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots (Compilation
of L.A. police records) |
|
|
1965:
"We Shall
Overcome" speech - Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
|
1966:
1966 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1966:
Black Panther Party Platform and Program |
|
|
1966:
"Divorce
and the Family in America" by Christopher Lasch in The
Atlantic Monthly (Nov.) |
|
|
1966:
Escobedo v. Illinois
|
|
|
1966:
Freedom of
Information Act |
|
|
1966:
Martin Luther King and Economic Justice - Testimony in front of the
Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of
the
Committee on Government Operations (Dec. 14 & 15) - excerpts |
|
|
1966:
Miranda v. Arizona
|
|
|
1966:
The Miranda
Warning |
|
|
1966:
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose |
|
|
1966:
Proposal by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the
Development of a Nonviolent Action Movement for the Greater Chicago Area |
|
|
1966:
Request for Special Training of Guatemalan Security
Forces (12/3) |
|
|
1966:
Robert
F. Kennedy, Speech at the University of Capetown, South Africa, Day of
Affirmation (6/6) |
|
|
1966:
Senator J. William Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power |
|
|
1966:
South Carolina v. Katzenbach |
|
|
1966:
Special Purpose Telegram Blank No. 74/AG - killed-in-action
notification, Vietnam War (photo)
|
|
|
1966:
U.S. Counter-Terror Assistance to Guatemalan Security
Forces (1/4) |
|
|
1966:
United States v. Guest |
|
|
1966:
“Women’s Annual Earnings Are Substantially Lower than Those of Men” -
Statistical Studies on Women Workers |
|
|
1967:
1967 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1967:
25th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
|
1967:
Age Discrimination in
Employment Act |
|
|
1967:
Air Quality Act |
|
|
1967:
"Beyond Vietnam"
speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (4/4) |
|
|
1967:
"Black Power" -
Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton |
|
|
1967:
Charter
of the Organization of American States [OAS] |
|
|
1967:
“The
Communications Media, Ironically, Have Failed to Communicate” - The
Kerner Report Assesses Media Coverage of Riots and Race Relations |
|
|
1967:
Federal court order mandating school desegregation of Birmingham, AL |
|
|
1967:
"The Great Society" - political poster |
|
|
1967:
Guatemala- A Counter-Insurgency Running Wild (10/23) |
|
|
1967:
Ho Chi Minh Letter to President Lyndon Johnson (2/15) |
|
|
1967:
in re Gault |
|
|
1967:
Inspector General's Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro
|
|
|
1967:
Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Johnson (4/18) - page 1
page 2 |
|
|
1967:
Loving v. Virginia
-- issue of the constitutionality of Virginia's
Miscegenation Law |
|
|
1967:
"Make Love Not War" - political poster |
|
|
1967:
McNamara's "Mutual Deterrence" Speech |
|
|
1967:
Rally Against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon -
Washington
Post
(10/22) |
|
|
1967:
The Situation in Watts Today - Donald Wheeldin |
|
|
1967:
Stokely Carmichael Speaks at Florida A&M University (photo) |
|
|
1967:
Summer of Love - reminiscences by those who participated |
|
|
1967:
“To
Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community” - The Black Panther
Party’s 10-Point Platform and Program |
|
|
1967:
Town Meeting
of the World:"The Image of America and the Youth of the World"
with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Gov. Ronald Reagan as broadcast over
the CBS Television Network and the CBS Radio
Network (5/15) |
|
|
1967:
"What Has Happened to America?" - President Nixon |
|
|
1968:
1968 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1968:
"Abraham,
Martin, and John" - song lyrics by Dick Holler |
|
|
1968:
Amalgamated Food Employees Union v Logan Valley
Plaza -- issue of free speech |
|
|
1968:
Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
|
|
1968:
“A
Complex Pattern of Past and Present Discrimination” - Academics React
to the Kerner Report |
|
|
1968:
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of (48 pages) |
|
|
1968:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform
American Independent Party Platform |
|
|
1968:
Epperson vs. Arkansas -
issue of the teaching of evolution |
|
|
1968:
Fair Housing Act |
|
|
1968:
"The First Civil Right" - Nixon campaign ad |
|
|
1968:
Flag Protection Act (1968, 1989) |
|
|
1968:
George Wallace at Madison Square Garden -
NY Times (Oct. 25) |
|
|
1968:
Guatemala and Counter-terror (3/29) |
|
|
1968:
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag"
lyrics - Country Joe and the Fish |
|
|
1968:
"I See the Promised Land"
speech - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, TN - the day before his
assassination (4/3) |
|
|
1968:
“Integration Without Preparation Is Frustration” - Community Reactions
to the Kerner Report |
|
|
1968:
"Kennedy
is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned;
Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence Surgery in Vain President Calls
Death Tragedy, Proclaims a Day of Mourning" - The New York Times
(6/6) |
|
|
1968:
Kerner Commission Report |
|
|
1968:
Mayor Daley
of Chicago ably defends the police action at the Democratic Convention
-- 1968 (YouTube video) |
|
|
1968:
"Nixon
Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation" - The New York
Times - front page with text (11/5) |
|
|
1968:
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (7/1) |
|
|
1968:
“Our
Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate
and Unequal” - Excerpts from the Kerner Report |
|
|
1968:
"Peace/Love" - poster |
|
|
1968:
President Johnson's Address to the Nation on his decision not to
run for another term of office (3/31) |
|
|
1968:
“The
Primary Goal Must Be a Single Society” - The Kerner Report’s
“Recommendations for National Action” |
|
|
1968:
The "Road Hog"
bus, El Rito, NM, Fourth of July parade - color photo by Lisa Law |
|
|
1968:
Robert F.
Kennedy's Speech Announcing his Candidacy for the Presidency (3/16)
-
audio file |
|
|
1968:
Statement by President Johnson on the Assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr. |
|
|
1968:
Statement on
the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Senator Robert
F. Kennedy at Indianapolis, IN on April 4 |
|
|
1968:
"Tet Offensive in Hue" - first-hand account by James M. Mueller (Jan.) |
|
|
1968:
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
|
|
|
1968:
Tribute to
Senator Robert F. Kennedy by Senator Edward M. Kennedy at St.
Patrick's Cathedral, NYC (5/8) |
|
|
1968:
U. S. vs O'Brien -- issue
of burning draft cards |
|
|
1968:
"Vietnam--An Eastern Theater Production" - political poster |
|
|
1968:
“We Are
Living in a State of Anarchy” - Radical Assessments and Agendas in
the Year 1968 |
|
|
1968:
"You Can't Jail the Revolution" - political poster |
|
|
1969:
1969 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1969:
“The
Act Has Not Failed” - A Call to Extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
|
|
1969:
Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam - President
Nixon |
|
|
1969:
Apollo 11 Flight Plan (7/16) |
|
|
1969:
Black Panther
National Anthem - lyrics - Elaine Brown (4/27) |
|
|
1969:
Brandenburg v. Ohio --
issue of the "incitement test" |
|
|
1969:
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY),
urges her House colleagues to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (5/21) |
|
|
1969:
El Plan de Santa Barbara - Carlos Munoz, Jr. |
|
|
1969:
First Inaugural Address of Richard M. Nixon |
|
|
1969:
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." 4:18 pm EDT on 7/20
- Neil Armstrong (audio file) "One Small Step for
Man...One Giant Leap for Mankind."
(audio
file) |
|
|
1969:
"The Ideology of
the Black Panther Party" - speech by David Hilliard on the occasion of
the trial of Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panthers (11/8)
|
|
|
1969:
National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 |
|
|
1969:
Neil Armstrong packing lunar samples on the moon - color photo, Apollo
11 landing (7/21) |
|
|
1969:
President Nixon
explains his
"Vietnamization" plans and speaks to the "silent majority" of
Americans (11/3) |
|
|
1969:
Public
Opinion Gallup Poll Results on the Vietnam War (March) |
|
|
1969:
Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student
Unions |
|
|
1969:
"That's one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind." at 10:56 pm EDT on 7/20 (sound file) |
|
|
1969:
Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School
District - issue of free speech rights of
students |
|
|
1969:
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
states that
"Normality has Become the Nemesis of Network News," Des Moines, IA
(11/13) |
|
|
1969:
"Would You Buy a Used War from This Man?" - political poster |
|
|
1969-1972:
Chart showing the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam |
|
|
1975:
Executive Session Testimony on Kennedy-Castro Dialogue
(7/10) |
