 |
1880s-1960s:
Samples of Jim Crow Laws |
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1940-62:
National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart |
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1940-90:
Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart |
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1940-95: US military
(national defense) outlays, 1940-95 |
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1945-90:
Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart |
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1950-70:
Unemployment, 1950-1970 - chart |
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1950-85:
Women in the Workforce, 1950-1985 - chart |
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1960-65:
Federal Spending on Social Programs, Excluding Social
Security - chart |
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|
1960-71:
Various
Documents on the Ideology of the "New Left"
(additional documents) |
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1960-72:
U.S. Troop Levels in Vietnam, 1960-1972 - chart |
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1960-85:
American Birthrate, 1960-1985 - chart |
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1960-90:
Consumer Price Index, 1960-1990 - chart |
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|
early 1960s:
"The
Ballad of Ira Hayes" - song lyrics about the Native-American issue by
Peter LaFarge |
|
|
early 1960s:
"My
Country 'Tis of Thy People are Dying" - song lyrics about the
Native-American issue by Buffy Sainte-Marie |
|
|
1960:
1960 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1960:
Address of
Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial
Association - Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas (9/12) |
|
|
1960:
Can
52,600,000 TV Set Owners Be Wrong - Look Magazine Assesses
American Television in 1960 |
|
|
1960:
"The
Communist-Led Riots Against the House Committee on Un-American
Activities In San Francisco, California - report by the Committee on
Un-American Activities (5/12-14) |
|
|
1960:
First Televised
Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (9/26) |
|
|
1960:
Fourth Televised
Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/21) |
|
|
1960:
Ike on Nixon's contributions as Vice President
(666K sound .avi) |
|
|
1960:
"Kennedy
Is Apparent Victor; Lead Cut in Two Key States; Democrats Retain
Congress" - The New York Times - front
page with full text |
|
|
1960:
Kennedy proposes the Peace Corps (10/14) |
|
|
1960:
"Leo Szilard
Interview: President Truman
Did Not Understand" - U.S. News & World Report, 8/15, pages
68-71 |
|
|
1960:
Memorandum of Conference with President Kennedy from General Maxwell
Taylor (9/20) |
|
|
1960:
“Men Without Women” -
Eleanor Harris in Look (11/22) |
|
|
1960:
“Mr.
Local Custom Must Die” - An Analysis of the Racial Situation in the
South in 1960 as Civil Rights Activism Increased |
|
|
1960:
On the definition of liberalism - speech by Senator
John F. Kennedy (9/14) |
|
|
1960:
"The New Mood in Politics" - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. from his book,
The Politics of Hope
|
|
|
1960:
Second Televised
Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/7) |
|
|
1960:
Secret U.S. Embassy Cable on U-2 Incident (5/7) |
|
|
1960:
Senator John F.
Kennedy Announcing His Candidacy for the Presidency of
the United States (1/2) |
|
|
1960:
Soviet Statement to U.S. on U-2 Incident (5/10) |
|
|
1960:
Third Televised
Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/13) |
|
|
1960:
U-2 Spy Incident documents |
|
|
1960:
You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) - Dr. Fred
Schwartz -
published by the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade |
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|
1960s:
"'60s Rave" -
photo of hippies |
|
|
1960-61:
Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges |
|
|
1961:
1961 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1961:
"Dedication" - poem by Robert Frost composed for and read at President
Kennedy's Inauguration |
|
|
1961:
Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech |
|
|
1961:
First Strike
Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961 - New Documents from The
Kennedy Administration |
|
|
1961:
Founding
Documents of the Peace Corps |
|
|
1961:
Kennedy Memo on Apollo Program (4/20) |
|
|
1961:
Kennedy Speech on Berlin Crisis (7/25) |
|
|
1961:
Khrushchev's Response to Kennedy Speech on Berlin
Crisis (8/4) |
|
|
1961:
Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy |
|
|
1961:
Law Day Address -
new Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy - University of Georgia,
Athens, GA (5/6) |
|
|
1961:
Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Kennedy (2/9) - page 1
page 2 |
|
|
1961:
Letter From President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev
(4/18) |
|
|
1961:
Letter from
President Kennedy to President Diem of South Vietnam (12/14) |
|
|
1961:
Mapp v.
Ohio |
|
|
1961:
McGowan v. Maryland - work on Sunday |
|
|
1961:
Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs (Thomas Mann) to Secretary of State Rusk,
February 15, 1961. (Arguing against an invasion of Cuba) |
|
|
1961:
Memorandum from Lt. General John K. Gerhart, Deputy
Chief of Staff, Plans & Programs, U.S. Air Force, to Air Force Chief
of Staff Thomas White, "Long-Range Threat of Communist China" (2/8) |
|
|
1961:
Memorandum Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington, January 19, 1961. (Planning an invasion of Cuba) |
|
|
1961:
On extremism and conspiracy theories - speech by
President Kennedy (11/18) |
|
|
1961:
Photo (AP) of
Freedom Riders have breakfast at a lunch counter in the bus station in
Montgomery shortly before leaving for Jackson, MS and New Orleans, LA
with the intent of integrating interstate buses (5/24) |
|
|
1961:
Radio and Television Report to the American People on the
Berlin Crisis - JFK (7/25) |
|
|
1961:
Rusk-McNamara Report to President Kennedy - excerpts
from the "White Paper" advocating an increase in military, technical,
and economic aid to South Viet Nam (11/11) |
|
|
1961:
State
of the Union Address - JFK (1/61) |
|
|
1961: Statement Upon Signing Order Establishing the Peace Corps
(Executive Order 10924) - JFK (3/1) |
|
|
1961:
The Suburbs - Lewis Mumford |
|
|
1961:
TIME
Magazine's 'Men of the Year' for 1960 - "U. S. Scientists" (1/2 issue) |
|
|
1961:
USA and USSR- Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall
(8/17-18) |
|
|
1961-1963:
All pertinent documents on U. S.-Cuban relations, including
the Cuban Missile Crisis |
|
|
1962:
1962 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1962: Address at Rice
University on the Nation's Space Effort - JFK (Houston, TX -
9/12) |
|
|
1962:
Baker
v. Carr |
|
|
1962:
Collective memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
|
|
1962:
Cuban Missile Crisis audio
files (10/18-29) |
|
|
1962:
Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy
(10/24) |
|
|
1962:
Letter to Fidel Castro from Nikita Khrushchev Advising
Him to Remain Firm against US Aggression (10/28) |
|
|
1962:
"The Long View of Our World" - speech by President
Kennedy (3/23) |
|
|
1962:
"Marilyn Monroe" - poem |
|
|
1962:
Memorandum From Attorney General Robert Kennedy to
President Kennedy about his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin
(10/24) |
|
|
1962:
Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy
(the Second Letter) - 10/27 |
|
|
1962:
Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy
(10/28) |
|
|
1962:
Nation's Space Effort - speech by President Kennedy |
|
|
1962:
Off the Record Meeting on Cuba, Oct. 16, 1962,
6-30-7-55 p.m. |
|
|
1962:
President Kennedy's Speech Announcing the "Quarantine"
Against Cuba (10/22) |
|
|
1962:
Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (S. D.
S.) - 6/11-15 |
|
|
1962:
Radio and
Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms
Buildup in Cuba - quarantine - JFK (10/22) |
|
|
1962:
Radio and
Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of
Mississippi
- JFK (9/30) |
|
|
1962:
Robert McNamara and Counterforce, "No Cities" Doctrine |
|
|
1962:
"The Roots of
Social Security" - speech by Francis Perkins delivered at the Social
Security Administration HQs in Baltimore, MD (10/23) |
|
|
1962:
Satellite Photos of
Reconnaissance Planes over Cuba |
|
|
1962:
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Telegram to
President John F. Kennedy (10/24) |
|
|
1962:
State
of the Union Address - JFK (1/62) |
|
|
1962:
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the
Department of State, October 26, 1962 (Khrushchev Asks for a U.S.
No-Invasion Pledge) |
|
|
1962:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1961 - "John F. Kennedy: A Way
with the People" (1/5 issue) |
|
|
1962:
Transcript of a Meeting at the White House Regarding
Missile Sites In Cuba (10/16) |
|
|
1963:
1963 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1963:
Address by President Kennedy at The American
University, Washington, D.C., "Towards a Strategy of Peace" (6/10) |
|
|
1963:
Abington Township v. Schempp |
|
|
1963:
Address Before the International Monetary Fund -
President Kennedy (9/30), Washington, DC |
|
|
1963:
Address Before the Irish Parliament - President
Kennedy, Dublin (6/28) |
|
|
1963:
American University Speech - President Kennedy (6/10) |
|
|
1963:
Announcement of the Civil Rights Bill - President
Kennedy (6/11) |
|
|
1963:
“A
condition we can ill afford” - Debating the Equal Pay Act of 1963 |
|
|
1963:
The Cuban Problem (4/21) |
|
|
1963:
Daily Diary of President Johnson - Nov. 22 (3 pages) and Nov. 23 (4
pages) |
|
|
1963:
"The
Death of Emmett Till" - song lyrics by Bob Dylan |
|
|
1963:
Desegregation in the Schools of Alabama - Report (9/9) |
|
|
1963:
Equal Pay Act |
|
|
1963:
“Federal legislation is not needed” - Debating the Equal Pay Act of
1963 |
|
|
1963:
Gideon v.
Wainwright (3/18) |
|
|
1963:
“I Can’t Fight Alone”
- James H. Meredith in Look (4/19) |
|
|
1963:
"I Have a
Dream" Speech - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (8/28) |
|
|
1963:
"Letter From a Birmingham Jail" - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(4/16) |
|
|
1963:
Letter from
Malcolm X to Whitney Young (7/31) |
|
|
1963:
LBJ
Being Sworn in as President On Air Force One on the Way Back to
Washington from Dallas - photo |
|
|
1963:
Memorandum of Understanding Between the U. S. & the U. S. S. R.
Regarding the Establishment of Direct
Communications Links (6/20) |
|
|
1963:
"Mr. Donovan's Trip to Cuba" - Mr. Bundy (3/4) |
|
|
1963:
"The
Negro as American" - Robert C. Weaver |
|
|
1963:
"A New Social Order" - speech by President Kennedy in
Frankfurt, FRG (6/24) |
|
|
1963:
Phone Conversation between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry
Cabot Lodge - Lodge's implied withdrawal of support for Diem's regime
(11/1) |
|
|
1963:
Photo (AP) of
police use of dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, AL. The
police commissioner, "Bull" Connor, also allowed fire hoses to be
turned on young civil rights demonstrators (May) |
|
|
1963:
President Kennedy's Television Interviews on Vietnam
(9/2 & 9/9) |
|
|
1963: Radio and
Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights - JFK
(6/11) |
|
|
1963:
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - JFK (7/26) |
|
|
1963:
Recommendations from the Commission on the Status of Women |
|
|
1963:
Remarks
Intended for Delivery to the Texas Democratic State Committee in
the Municipal Auditorium in Austin
- JFK (11/22) |
|
|
1963:
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledges the crowd of 250,000+ after
his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the
March on Washington, DC (8/28) - photo (AP) |
|
|
1963:
School District of Abington Township, PA v. Schempp |
|
|
1963:
"Sitting-In In Mississippi" - Ann Moody |
|
|
1963:
"Some Arguments Against Accommodation [in Cuba] - -A
Rebuttal" (11/12) |
|
|
1963:
Southern
Baptist Convention- Faith & Message- Statement on Religious Liberty
(5/9) |
|
|
1963:
State
of the Union Address - JFK (1/63) |
|
|
1963:
"The Strategy of Peace" - speech by President Kennedy
(6/10) |
|
|
1963:
“Unequal pay is immoral” - Debating the Equal Pay Act
of 1963 |
|
|
1963:
Virginia
Commission on Constitutional Government, "Civil Rights and Legal
Wrongs" -pamphlet in response to civil rights legislation (Aug.) |
|
|
1963-64:
"Medgar Evars Lullaby" - song lyrics by Richard Weissman |
|
|
1964:
1964 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
|
|
1964:
23rd.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
|
1964:
24th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
|
1964:
"A Time for Choosing" Speech - Ronald Reagan |
|
|
1964:
Acceptance Speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
|
|
1964:
Address on Behalf of Sen. Barry Goldwater - Ronald Reagan |
|
|
1964:
Bell v.
Maryland |
|
|
1964:
"Birmingham Sunday" - song lyrics by Richard Farina |
|
|
1964:
Charles de Gaulle- France's Attitude Toward US Policy
in Vietnam |
|
|
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)
(video) |
|
|
1964:
"The
Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax" - speech by Gov. George
Wallace (AL) |
|
|
1964:
"Daisy" spot commercial for LBJ's campaign (video file) |
|
|
1964:
Documents Related to the Tonkin Gulf Incident |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1964:
Malcolm X on the March on Washington |
|
|
1964:
Malcolm X warns of "the Ballot or the Bullet" - Washington Heights, NY
(3/29) |
|
|
1964:
New York Times v. Sullivan |
|
|
1964:
Nobel Prize
Acceptance Speech - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oslo, Norway (12/10) |
|
|
1964:
Omnibus Housing Act |
|
|
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:
Reynolds V. Sims |
|
|
1964:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the
Movement (Nov.) |
|
|
1964:
Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health |
|
|
1964:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1963 - "Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Never Again Where He Was" (1/3 issue) |
|
|
1964:
The War on Poverty - speech by Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
|
1964-70:
Federal Aid to Education, 1964-1970 - chart |
|
|
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:
"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:
Call for a March Against the Vietnam War by the S. D. S. |
|
|
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:
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:
President Johnson congratulates Martin Luther King, Jr. at the
ceremonial signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - photo |
|
|
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:
Speech Given by President Johnson at
Johns Hopkins University (4/7) |
|
|
1965:
State Department
White Paper on Vietnam |
|
|
1965:
Summary of
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson
(7/20) on Increasing U. S. Presence in Vietnam |
|
|
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:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1964 - "Lyndon Baines Johnson:
The Prudent Progressive" (1/1 issue) |
|
|
1965:
U. S. State Department White Paper on Vietnam |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1966:
Miranda v. Arizona
|
|
|
1966:
The Miranda
Warning |
|
|
1966:
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose |
|
|
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:
TIME Magazine
'Man of the Year' - "William C. Westmoreland: Guardians at the
Gate" (1/7 issue) |
|
|
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:
"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:
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:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1966 - "Young Generation: The
Inheritor" (1/7 issue) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
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 1968 |
|
|
1968:
Epperson vs. Arkansas -
issue of the teaching of evolution |
|
|
1968:
Fair Housing Act |
|
|
1968:
Flag Protection Act (1968, 1989) |
|
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1968:
George Wallace at Madison Square Garden - NY Times (Oct. 25) |
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1968:
Guatemala and Counter-terror (3/29) |
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1968:
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag" - Country Joe and the Fish
(sound file) |
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1968:
"I See the Promised Land"
speech - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, TN - the day before his
assassination (4/3) |
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1968:
“Integration Without Preparation Is Frustration” - Community Reactions
to the Kerner Report |
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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) |
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1968:
Mayor Daley
of Chicago ably defends the police action at the Democratic Convention
-- 1968 (170K .wav) |
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1968:
"Nixon
Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation" - The New York
Times - front page with text (11/5) |
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1968:
“Our
Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate
and Unequal” - Excerpts from the Kerner Report |
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1968:
"Peace/Love" - poster |
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1968:
President Johnson's Address to the Nation on his decision not to
run for another term of office (3/31) |
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1968:
“The
Primary Goal Must Be a Single Society” - The Kerner Report’s
“Recommendations for National Action” |
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1968:
The "Road Hog"
bus, El Rito, NM, Fourth of July parade - color photo by Lisa Law |
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1968:
Robert F.
Kennedy's Speech Announcing his Candidacy for the Presidency (3/16) |
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1968:
Statement by President Johnson on the Assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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1968:
Statement on
the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Senator Robert
F. Kennedy (Indianapolis, IN - 4/4) |
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1968:
"Tet Offensive in Hue" - first-hand account by James M. Mueller (Jan.) |
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1968:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1967 - "Lyndon B. Johnson: The
Paradox of Power" (1/5 issue) |
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1968: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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1968:
Tribute to
Senator Robert F. Kennedy by Senator Edward M. Kennedy at St.
Patrick's Cathedral, NYC (5/8) |
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1968:
U. S. vs O'Brien -- issue
of burning draft cards |
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1968:
"Vietnam--An Eastern Theater Production" - political poster |
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1968:
“We Are
Living in a State of Anarchy” - Radical Assessments and Agendas in
theYear 1968 |
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1968:
"You Can't Jail the Revolution" - political poster |
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1969:
1969 Economic
Statistics - Economy & Prices |
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1969:
“The
Act Has Not Failed” - A Call to Extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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1969:
Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam - President
Nixon |
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1969:
Black Panther
National Anthem - lyrics - Elaine Brown (4/27) |
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1969:
Brandenburg v. Ohio --
issue of the "incitement test" |
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1969:
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY),
urges her House colleagues to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (5/21) |
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1969:
El Plan de Santa Barbara - Carlos Munoz, Jr. |
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1969:
"Equal Rights For Women "
- speech by Shirley Chisholm |
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1969:
First Inaugural Address of Richard M. Nixon |
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1969:
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." These words ushered in a new era of human
exploration at 4:18 pm EDT on 7/20, as the first manned flight to the
Moon touched down |
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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)
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1969:
"LadyBear...Child
of Mother Earth" - participant at Woodstock (color photo) |
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1969:
National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 |
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1969:
Neil Armstrong packing lunar samples on the moon - color photo, Apollo
11 landing (7/21) |
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1969:
President Nixon
explains his
"Vietnamization" plans and speaks to the "silent majority" of
Americans (11/3) |
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1969:
Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student
Unions |
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1969:
"That's one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind." at 10:56 pm EDT on 7/20 (sound file) |
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1969:
TIME
Magazine's 'Men of the Year' for 1968 - "Apollo
Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell"
(1/3 issue) |
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1969:
Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School
District - issue of free speech rights of
students |
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1969:
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
states that
"Normality has Become the Nemesis of Network News," Des Moines, IA
(11/13) |
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1969:
"Would You Buy a Used War from This Man?" - political poster |
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1975:
Executive Session Testimony on Kennedy-Castro Dialogue
(7/10) |
