1960: Cultural, artistic, Developments

There were a lot of cultural and artistic development in 1960 during the summer Olympics in Rome. Not only were African Americans such as Cassius Clay, and Wilma Rudolph allowed to participate in the Olympics, they also won a plethora of gold metals.



http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100830/ALI/308300039/A-golden-moment-1960-Olympic-victory-launched-Muhammad-Ali-into-spotlight

Artistically, the television was being utilized in a very broad form, by broadcasting the events in Rome, to the United States.

The cold war continued to become colder as the two sides distrusted the other more and tried to influence other parts of the world. John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson won the Presidency with one of the smallest margins in history ( 113,000 votes ) out of 68.3 million. The sexual revolution of the 60's had begun with the use of birth control pills and Hugh Hefner opening the first of his Playboy clubs in Chicago. The "Flintstones" is shown on television for the first time and movies this year include "The Magnificent Seven" and "Psycho" . Notable technical achievements include the invention of the Laser and a Heart Pacemaker. France tests its first atomic bomb and joins those countries with nuclear bomb technology. Notable names that appear in the limelight that year include "Cassius Clay" and "Sir Francis Chichester" . The US sends the first troops to Vietnam to support the French in the fight against communist North Vietnam.

OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS:

1960 was a HUGE year for America. John F. Kennedy won the presidential election, schools started to desegregate, and the civil rights movement began to kick off!

On February 1, the civil rights movement that would dominate much of the politics of the 1960s received a fresh impetus when four black college students sat down at a lunch counter reserved for whites at a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for service. They were asked to leave and politely refused, thus ensuring their arrest. Sit-ins would soon become a popular form of protest in the 1960s. So would freedom rides, with black and white passengers riding side by side on interstate bus trips that ended in Southern depots, often with angry white mobs waiting for the “outside agitators” trying to integrate old Dixie.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King speech, 'Where Do We Go From Here':
http://www.writespirit.net/inspirational_talks/political/martin_luther_king_talks/where_do_we_go_from_here/index.html





JFK article:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/nov-8-1960-john-f-kennedy-elected-president/






JFK address civil rights VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWX_pjyIq-g




sources: http://www.uca1960.com/class_custom6.cfm
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html