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The 1960s were years of enormous contrasts in American politics. President John F. Kennedy's challenge to "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country" at his inauguration in January 1961 ushered in...

During the 1960s major changes took place in American attitudes toward and about the law. At the same time the law itself was consolidating a trend in the direction of individual rights that had begun twenty-five years before. Three notorious criminal...

Although the 1960s are long past, events and influences of that turbulent era continue to color American culture. Looking back, the early sixties seem as flat and gray as the old, grainy black-and-white comedy shows still showing on cable TV. High...

The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends which occurred roughly during the years 1958-1974 in the west,...

A 1960s black militant sentenced to life in prison for killing a deputy in 2000 has been transferred to federal custody because his high-profile status presented "unique issues," Georgia corrections officials said.State officials declined to specify why they transferred Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who gained fame...

Mass public shootings have become such a part of American life in recent decades that the most dramatic of them can be evoked from the nation's collective memory in a word or two: Luby's. Jonesboro. Columbine.And now, Virginia Tech.Since Aug. 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman...

Missouri is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for the second time in school history. The Tigers have to be hoping this stay is longer than the first.Missouri became the fourth team this season — joining Southern California, LSU and Ohio State —...

A former soldier convicted of killing his three sons and their half-sister with an assault rifle became the first inmate executed in the electric chair in Tennessee since 1960.Daryl Holton, 45, was pronounced dead at 1:25 a.m. CDT (0625 GMT) Wednesday at Riverbend Maximum Security...

This piece examines the riots of the nineteen sixties and their causes.

By some the 1960s are regarded as a period of positive change that brought with it new freedoms. The opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in July 1964, which gave women confidential advice on family planning and contraception, was a turning point in the liberty and freedom of women.