Timeline of New Left Movements in the 1960's

Timeline of New Left Movements in the 1960s

Melissa Mercado

Kaplan University

SS310-15 Exploring the 1960s: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Professor Nicole Braun

March 21, 2010

1 On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond took stools at the “whites only” lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina (Farber, 1994). This sit-in prompted the beginning of hundreds of sit-ins in restaurants and boycotts throughout the South.

2 Women that were employed during the 1960’s worked the same job as men did, but for less wages. They were not respected in the work place, and were ultimately treated as second class citizens.

3 A small interracial group supported by the NAACP and SCLS traveled by public buses through the Deep South, to test federal court orders which had desegregated interstate bus terminals (Farber, 1994).

4 James Meredith enrolled in the University of Mississippi now making the school an integrated school. He had to be guarded by over four hundred federal marshals, but his strength played an integral part in the acceptance and integration of Mississippi

5 Headed by Esther Peterson, the highest ranking woman in the Kennedy administration the President’s Commission launched the Equal Pay Act, so that it would be illegal to pay men more than women to do the same job (Farber, 1994).

6 Betty Friedan gains unexpected notoriety from her book, The Feminine Miystique, and uses her notoriety to form a pressure group.

7 Martin Luther King defies a court injunction, and protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He is subsequently jailed, and from his jail cells pens “Letters from Birmingham”.

8 Over 200,000 gather at Lincoln Memorial to support the civil rights legislation that President Kennedy proposed (Farber, 1994).

9 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed, making it a law that no one can be stereotyped based on their gender or race, when they are seeking...