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1960s Chronology: California/United States

 

Year

United States

California

1961

John F Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States

School of Anti-Communism holds mass rally in Orange County

Magnolia School District Recalls liberal school board trustees

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Pat Brown re-elected Governor over Richard Nixon

1963

March on Washington

Kennedy Assassination

 

1964

Mississippi Summer

Tonkin Gulf Resolution leads to escalation of War in Vietnam

Passage of Civil Rights Act

Lyndon Johnson Defeats Barry Goldwater

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Proposition 14

1965

U.S. begins bombing of North Vietnam

Passage of Voting Rights Act

Watts Riots

Delano Farmworkers’ Strike Begins

1966

Emergence of Black Power Movement

Whites Expelled from SNCC

Farmworker Victory at Delano

Election of Ronald Reagan as Governor

1967

Detroit and Newark Race Riots

Anti-War March on the Pentagon

Beginning of Grape Boycott

Stop the Draft Week

Rise of the Black Panthers

Summer of Love

1968

Tet Offensive

Lyndon Johnson announces he won’t run for re-election

Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy

Columbia Strike

Riots at Democratic Convention

Richard Nixon Elected President

San Francisco State Strike

Reverend Chuck Smitrh launches “Jesus Movement”

1969

Woodstock

San Francisco State Strike Ends

People’s Park Riots in Berkeley

1970

U.S. invasion of Cambodia

Reagan re-elected

Robert Schuller launches Hour of Power TV Show