1960
1960 - The American Vegan Society is formed.
1961 - the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began the freedom rides to end segregation on buses.
1961 - Amnesty International founded to protect the rights of political prisnors.
1962, Sept. 30--The first convention of Cesar Chavez's National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) is convened in Fresno, Calif.
1963 - . On August 28, 1963, 250,000 men, women, and children assembled on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. And the world was blessed to hear the famous "I have a Dream" speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King jr
1963 - Presiden John F. Kennedy is assinated in Dallas Texas Nov. 22.
1963 - Tolstoy Farm becomes the prototype, back to the land, "hippie" commune, with few rules and and open membership.
1964- Drop City commune/artists colony founded in Trinidad, Colorado.
1964 - Mario Savio gets up on a police car at Spoul Plaza at the UC campus in Berkeley, Ca. and sparks the Free Speech Movement.
1964 - The U.S. creates the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse to escalate the war in Vietnam.
1964- Tim Leary writes The Psychedelic Experience
1964 - Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters began traveling around the country in a school bus painted psychedelic colors giving "Acid Tests. " Introducing people to the LSD experience.
1966 Spring-summer --A boycott of the struck DiGiorgio Fruit Corp. forces the giant grape grower to agree to an election among its workers. The company brings in the Teamsters Union to oppose Cesar's NFWA. The NFWA and the Filipino American AWOC merge to form the United Farm Workers and the union affiliates with the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation. DiGiorgio workers vote for the UFW
1966 - National Organization of Women NOW was established on June 30, 1966 in Washington, D.C.
1966 - The Supreme Court ruled that cities must begin to desegregate the schools immediately. In 1971, they approved busing as the primary method of integrating the schools
1966 - in the wake of the assassination of black leader Malcolm X and on the heels of the massive black, urban uprising in Watts, California. Huey P. Newton gathered a few of his longtime friends, including Bobby Seale and David Hilliard, and formed the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
1966 - Lou Gottlieb declares his "Morning Star Ranch" Land, access to which is denied no one." And starts a legal battle with local authorities to keep Morning Star open land eventually deeding the land to God.
1966 - Mark Lane writes Rush to Judgement suggesting there was a conspiracy to assasinate president Kennedy.
1966 - October 30, -Acid Test Graduation
1967 - Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs, and some SF Diggers lead a mass crowd in the .Excorsism of the Pentagon
1967 - The Summer of Love!!!
1968 - Martin Luther King jr assasinated in memphis, Tenn., on April 4.
1968 - Robert Kennedy assasinated in Los Angeles, Ca., on June 4.
1968 - American Indian Movement starts foot patrol in Minneapolis in response to growing police violence.
1968 - Durring demonstartions at the Democratic National Convention several organizers are indicted and become known as the Chicago 7.
1969 - First Earth Day celebration.
1969 - Woodstock Festival in upper N.Y. draws 500,000 people. Along with 3 days of music, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm create an atmosphere of love that transcends the crowd. Woodstock Nation declared.
1969- The Stonewall riots in NYC lead to the birth of the modern Gay Lesbian Bi Transgender movement.
1969 - The people of Berkeley, Ca. take an unused lot from UC and create People's Park.
1970
1970- May 4 , Kent State Massacre occurred when the Ohio National Guard opened fire durring an anti-war demonstration killing 4 students.
1970 - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) formed.
http://www.hippiemuseum.org/timeline2.htm 1971 - The ERA is approved without amendments by the U.S. House of Representatives in a vote of 354-24
1971- Greenpeace began in 1971, when a small but determined group of activists boarded an aging 80-foot boat, slowly making their way through the cold North Pacific waters off Alaska. Their mission was to "bear witness" to the destructive nuclear weapons testing planned for Amchitka island. Little did they know they had just created what was to become the largest environmental movement in the world.