1968
Jan 5

CIA Sends President Johnson Third Report on Student Dissent

Jan 5

Dr. Spock, Four Others, Indicted for Anti-War Conspiracy

Jan 15

“Sisterhood is Powerful”: Women’s March for Equality Led by 87-year old Jeannette Rankin

Jan 18

African-American Jazz Singer Eartha Kitt Confronts LBJ at White House Over Vietnam

Jan 27

Chicago Subways and Elevated to Carry Anti-Vietnam War Ads

Feb 8

“Planet of the Un-Americans:” Film Parodies HUAC

Feb 25

Pete Seeger Performs “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” on Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Feb 29

Kerner Commission Report on 1960s Riots Warns: “Two Societies, One Black, One White”

Feb 29

Police Fingerprint New Jersey Students in High School Shop Class

Apr 3

King’s Final Speech: “I Have Been to the Mountaintop”

Apr 4

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Apr 11

Congress Passes Anti-Riot Act

Apr 11

Congress Passes Fair Housing Act

Apr 11

Congress Passes Indian Civil Rights Act

Apr 18

Attorney General Ramsey Clark Criticizes Chicago Mayor Daley’s “Shoot to Kill” Order

Apr 26

“Fuck the Draft” – Robert Paul Cohen Arrested

May 9

J. Edgar Hoover Orders FBI COINTELPRO Action Against New Left Organizations

May 20

Supreme Court: “Illegitimate” Children Are Persons with Rights

May 27

First Amendment Does Not Protect Burning Draft Card Rules Supreme Court

May 28

NYCLU Supports Eight Civil Liberties Bills in NY State Legislature

Jun 10

Supreme Court Okays Police Stops and Frisks

Jun 10

Taxpayers Can Sue the Government Over Unconstitutional Practices

Jun 14

Dr. Spock, Three Others Convicted of Conspiracy to Obstruct the Draft

Jun 19

First Federal Wiretapping Law Enacted; President Johnson Objects in Signing Statement

Jul 5

Congress Passes Flag Protection Act

Jul 11

American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded

Aug 5

CIA Memo Explains Co-opting Universities, Professors

Aug 17

Aspen, Colorado, Hippies Charge Police Harassment

Aug 28

“Police Riot” at Democratic Party Convention

Sep 4

CIA Delivers “Restless Youth” Report on U.S. Peace Groups

Sep 7

Feminists Protest Miss America Pageant – But Do NOT Burn Bras

Sep 30

Real Freedom for the Thought We Hate: ACLU’s Eleanor Holmes Norton Defends Free Speech for George Wallace

Oct 1

Yippies Disrupt HUAC Hearing in Chicago

Oct 16

Black U.S. Athletes Stage Political Protest at Olympics Award Ceremony – Inspiration for a Later Generation of Athletes

Nov 1

Rated “X” – New Movie Ratings System Goes Into Effect

Nov 5

Shirley Chisholm First African-American Woman Elected to the House of Representatives

Nov 12

Freedom to Teach – Scopes Finally Vindicated in Epperson Case

Nov 22

First Interracial Kiss on National TV

Dec 1

Walker Report Finds “Police Riot” at Democratic Party Convention

Dec 13

Robert G. Thompson, Cold War Victim, Wins Posthumous Right to Burial at Arlington National Cemetery

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