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*'''1960''': Presidential Election of 1960-Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy wins vs. Republican nominee Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy had a narrow victory of 118,000 votes out of 69 million cast. <ref>Norton, Mary Beth, David M. Katzman, and David W. Blight. A People and a Nation : A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2004. 829.<ref/> | *'''1960''': Presidential Election of 1960-Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy wins vs. Republican nominee Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy had a narrow victory of 118,000 votes out of 69 million cast. <ref>Norton, Mary Beth, David M. Katzman, and David W. Blight. A People and a Nation : A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2004. 829.<ref/> | ||
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*'''May 5, 1961''': American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. went into outerspace in the Freedom 7 capsule as a product of Project Mercury, America's initial space program. | *'''May 5, 1961''': American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. went into outerspace in the Freedom 7 capsule as a product of Project Mercury, America's initial space program. | ||
*'''September 1962''': James Meredith becomes the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi when President Kennedy orders 500 U.S. marshals to protect Meredith. <ref>Norton, Mary Beth, David M. Katzman, and David W. Blight. A People and a Nation : A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2004. 835.</ref> | *'''September 1962''': James Meredith becomes the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi when President Kennedy orders 500 U.S. marshals to protect Meredith. <ref>Norton, Mary Beth, David M. Katzman, and David W. Blight. A People and a Nation : A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2004. 835.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 2 September 2008
Contents
Summary
- specific to the 1960s
[1]
Origin:
The Democratic Party of the 1960’s began the decade with new ambition and motivation. On January 2nd, the party announced John F. Kennedy as their official presidential candidate, rivaling Republican Vice President Richard Nixon (1). In his acceptance speech, John F. Kennedy presented his stance on ending the arms race, rebuilding the education system, maintaining order in the emergence of new nations, sustaining the agricultural and urban base economies, resolving the growth of inflation and unemployment, and preserving traditional American values throughout each step. Kennedy appealed to the public by referencing the Democratic victory in 1932, and indicated that it was time to revive the party’s goals. The 1932 election laid the foundation for the New Deal coalition (2), which brought together a variety of groups due to economic concerns. Kennedy’s success in the election became a starting point for the Democratic Party throughout the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Chronology:
- 1960: Presidential Election of 1960-Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy wins vs. Republican nominee Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy had a narrow victory of 118,000 votes out of 69 million cast. Cite error: Closing
</ref>missing for<ref>tag - August 28, 1963: March on Washington. A quarter of a million Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr., gathered on the Washington Mall to show congress their support for President Kennedy's civil rights bill.[1]
- November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.[2]
- July 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson ended legal discrimination of the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin in federal programs, employment, voting, and public accommodation. Programs, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were created to enforce this civil rights act through withholding federal funding and investigating claims of job discrimination.[3]
- 1964: Presidential Election of 1964-President Lyndon B. Johnson wins vs. Republican Arizona senator Barry Goldwater
- August 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution. Following attacks of U.S. destroyers by the North Vietnamese President Lyndon B. Johnson gained power to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the United States and to prevent further aggression".[4] This event forced Johnson to increase his focus on the conflict in Vietnam rather than focus on soical reforms.
- 1965: Voting Rights Act
- April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by 42 year old James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
- August 1968: Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL. Violence erupted as anitwar protestors gathered to campaign for antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy.[5]
- 1968: Presidential Election of 1968-Republican nominee Richard Nixon wins; Democratic nominee Vice President Hubert Humphery; and Independent Governor George Wallace of Alabama. [6]
- Significant events & actions
- watershed moments
- turning points and phases of the organization
Significant People:
John F. Kennedy- Democratic presidential candidate in the 1960 election whose acceptance speech and inauguration speech addressed the majority of issues that were the focus of the party for the decade
Lee Harvey Oswald- assassinated Kennedy three years into his presidency
Lynden B. Johnson- Democratic presidential candidate in the 1960 election whose plan for a “Great Society” elaborated upon Kennedy’s concerns and addressed them
Martin Luther King, Jr.-
Eugene McCarthy-
Hubert Humphrey-
Outcomes/Long Term Effects on U.S. Culture:
Longterm effect: proportional delegates and superdelegates are a result of the 1968 convention violence
Democratic party is weakened, Hubert Humphrey and george mcgovern both lose in landslides to republicans
They mandate a certain number of female delegates, black delegates, etc. because minority groups and younger people were discriminated against by an older party establishment that was out of touch with the younger liberals
References:
1.Norton, Mary Beth, David M. Katzman, and David W. Blight. A People and a Nation : A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Division, 2004. 829.
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