Episodes Nearest to May 1, 1966 to May 31, 1966: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Dr. Timothy Leary Defends Responsible Use of LSD
    date May, 1966 to 1966map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Counterculture, Drug Culture, Government, Law

    By 1966, interest in LSD had proliferated in the public sphere to an enormous extent. The debate over the chemical’s risks and therapeutic possibilities led to Senate subcommittee hearings on its use. Acid, as LSD is commonly called, had been sensationalized by mass media publications and, although in its early years it had been extensively and responsibly studied by medical professionals, the...

  2. The 1966 Hough Riots
    date July 18, 1966 to July 24, 1966map Cuyahoga, Ohiotags Race-Relations, Riot, Cleveland

    During the late night hours of July 18, 1966, 26-year-old Joyce Arnett walked through Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood with two friends. As they approached E. 83rd Street, police officers ushered them into the second floor of a nearby building. The police presence had recently arrived to disperse a large crowd that had gathered on the street. Mrs. Arnett, a mother of three who lived nearby,...

  3. Carmichael Calls for Black Militancy
    date September, 1966 to 1966map Bronx, New Yorktags Race-Relations, African-Americans

    Many African-Americans had become frustrated with the slow rate of racial progress in the 1960s.  While Martin Luther King Jr. and others protested racial injustices in a nonviolent way, other African-American lost patience with the attitude of whites towards these movements.  Stokely Carmichael, a one-time non-violence believer, became an advocate and leader of the “Black Power” movement. ...

  4. Alma College's Hogan Physical Education Center
    date 1965map Gratiot, Michigantags Gym, Alma College, Hogan

    In 1923 Memorial Gym was constructed on the northwest end of campus. The gymnasium was named in honor of all of the local veterans who served in World War I. It was converted to the Clack Art Center after the college built a new gymnasium.

    In 1969, Alma College built a new Physical Education Center, which included four racquet ball courts, a weight room, a 20ft deep, six-lane swimming pool,...

  5. Lieutenant Colonel Moore leads 7thCalvary into Ia Drang Valley
    date 1965map Asia, Outside UStags "Harold Moore", "Ia Drang Valley"

    Lieutenant Colonel Harold G. Moore, Jr., took command of one of the battalions of the 11th Air Assault Division in June, 1964. He trained and tested the officers and soldiers of his battalion for over a year. Upon completion of testing, the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) was redesignated the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and Lieutenant Colonel Moore's battalion was given the 1st Battalion,...

  6. African Americans and Southern Labor Unions
    date 1967map Jefferson, Alabamatags Labor Unions, Race Relations, Civil Rights, african americans

    “The union wasn’t right by us,” was how James Manley summed up his experiences as an African American union member during an interview conducted by the Sloss Furnace Association. In 1984 Manley sat down in an interview with the goal of recording his thoughts on his career at Sloss Furnaces, a pig-iron producing blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama. Manley spoke of being laid off in 1967 for...

  7. Muhammad Ali: How One Man's Dissent Illustrates the Story of the American Opposition of the Vietnam War
    date 1967map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Cold War, Draft, Vietnam War, Anti Draft, Anti War

    During the Cold War, the Vietnam War was probably considered one of America's more unnecessary and counterproductive ideas to stop the spreading of Communism. As the American government continued the war with little thought to whom it effected on both sides of the spectrum many people both Black and White, poor and rich and overall different came together as one to protest the continuation of a...

  8. A Nun’s Perspective on Civil Rights, and an Alternate Ending
    date March, 1965 to 1965map Dallas, Alabamatags racial equality, Civil Rights Movement

    In March of 1965, Sister Mary Paul of Detroit wrote a letter to the sisters of her Order describing her experiences while in Alabama as a hospital volunteer during the Civil Rights Movement. She states, “they probably could not have gone on if it had not been for the support of the North,” demonstrating the dire circumstances that led her to get involved in the first place. Being from the north,...

  9. Marie Foster: A Woman on a Mission
    date March, 1965 to 1965map Dallas, Alabama, Wilcox, Alabamatags Selma, Voting Rights Act, Mary Foster, Civil Rights

    Marie Priscilla Martin was born on October 24, 1917 in Wilcox County, Alabama. From a poor family, Marie dropped out of high school to get married, and had three children. She eventually went to a junior college and became a dental hygienist. Foster became more involved in the voting rights movement because of her outrage over the racial inequality and injustice that she was constantly witnessing.

    It’s...

  10. Nonviolence in Civil Rights: Is it Successful?
    date March, 1965 to 1965map Dallas, Alabamatags Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Voting Rights Act of 1965

    On March 7, 1965 African Americans flooded the streets of Selma and headed west to Alabama’s capitol, Montgomery, to participate in a peaceful protest for racial equality. There was a lot of anticipation that led up to this march, as it was a long walk and a big mission. Although Dr. King was not able to attend, the people still assembled at Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama with high hopes and a...

  11. The Who and the New Generation
    date September 17, 1967map San Francisco, Californiatags Counterculture, The Who, 1960s

    The appearance of The Who on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 marked the beginning of a changing American society. Much like the Beatles began the First British Invasion when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show years earlier, they epitomized a significant change in thinking. However, unlike the Beatles, who were simply not part of the status quo, The Who actively challenged the social...

  12. Man's Heart Transcends Apartheid
    date January 4, 1968map Durham, North Carolinatags South Africans, Apartheid, Civil Rights

    In South Africa, the walls of apartheid were about to be transcended by the loss of a young “cape colored” in January 1968. Young Clive Haupt was a “colored” of South Africa who died at the age of 24; while his death was tragic; it had also achieved something, though it was small. While Clive was dead, his heart was to be given to Dr. Phillip Blaiberg, a white South African man. Though this...

  13. Bill Christofferson, a Vietnam Veteran, Experiences Forty Years of Coming Home
    date February, 1968 to 1968map Milwaukee, Wisconsintags War, Diplomacy/International

    The Vietnam War was one of the most traumatic events in postwar American history. At its peak, the United States had 543,400 soldiers stationed in Vietnam and as a whole, the United States sent over three million soldiers to Vietnam. One of these veterans of the Vietnam War was Bill Christofferson, who was a combat correspondent who returned from active duty in 1968. However, like many other Vietnam...

  14. Leary, Metzner, and Alpert Instruct LSD Initiates on How to Achieve a Successful “Psychedelic Session”
    date 1964map New York, New Yorktags Psychology, Counterculture, Drug Culture, Religion

    In 1964, psychologists Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual intended to prepare the users of psychedelic drugs for sessions. The authors had researched the therapeutic aspects of psychedelic substances, as well as their religious possibilities. The book is heavily influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, (also known...

  15. Mississippi Burning
    date June, 1964 to 1964map Neshoba, Mississippitags Civil Rights, Mississippi, Civil Rights Murders

    Mississippi Burning

                Murder is what it all boiled down to.  In the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, three civil rights workers were viciously slaughtered in Neshoba County, Mississippi.  Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film depicting the events of the heinous crime.   

                In order to fully understand the weight...

  16. Student Demonstrations at Fayetteville State University
    date April, 1968 to 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Education, Protest

    The Raleigh Observer reported that by April 1968 the students at Fayetteville State University were outraged due to the lack luster condition of their campus. A small group of students seized control of the administration building and phone systems on Thursday. The students were all male upperclassmen. Dr. Jones, the college president was the first to discover the students and speak with...

  17. Birth Control
    date August 18, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags birth control, Cold War, Women

    In the Fayetteville Observer on Sunday August 18, 1968, the paper noted that a Russian man came up to a Westerner and asked him for some birth control pills for his wife.  Normally, a man would ask for whisky or chewing gum, but this time it was different, and the request took the Westerner by surprise.  The reason he asked for birth control pills was because there was a housing shortage...

  18. From Agriculture to Technology
    date January 1, 1964map Alameda, Californiatags nursery, Technology, Agriculture, Fremont, Silicon Valley

    In late 1964, the California Nursery Company was getting ready to celebrate the company’s 100th anniversary. The Vallejo Adobe had been moved onto the grounds of the nursery and was restored to be used as a meeting room. There were big plans to expand, and construction was beginning on a new section of the nursery. The California Nursery Company was one of the most successful and well-known...

  19. "More Negroes Being Hired"
    date October 2, 1968map Wake, North Carolinatags Black Labor, African American jobs

    The North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, according to the Rockingham Daily Journal, indicate that by 1968, more African Americans were finding jobs in North Carolina State Government than ever before. The jobs of interest were in education, health, or hospitals, while fields not associated with education, health, or hospitals were still filled with white employees.  A survey was preformed...

  20. State Begins to Hire More Black Workers
    date October 2, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags african americans, employment

    On October 2, 1968, the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council submitted a survey to Raleigh demonstrating that blacks were being hired for more positions within the state government. That rise came over the previous two years. There were still state agencies that are all white, but those agencies did not include education, health or hospitals. “The study showed that 38 percent of the blacks employed...

  21. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 and its Deinstitutionalizing Effect on Saint Elizabeth's Hospital
    date October 31, 1963map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Medicine, Hospital, Space, Health, Government, Law

    Due to a growing need for mental health services, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital was built by the United States Congress as a result of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Act of 1852. The Institution opened in Washington, DC in 1855 as the “Government Hospital for the Insane”. A prominent leader in the mental health field, Dorthea Dix, lobbied for the construction of the facility and founded...

  22. August Willich: No Ordinary General
    date September 1, 1963map Walker, Georgiatags August Willich, 32nd Indiana Regiment, The Battle of Chickamauga

    All men may be created equal but they are remembered differently. In contrast to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, August Willich was not a celebrity of the Civil War.  He was a Prussian political refugee and an aristocrat with an unapologetic communistic political leaning. Willch’s communistic nature generated his pre-war nickname, “Reddest of the Red.” Yet, his tremendous contributions...

  23. Old Main: 1886-1969
    date March 9, 1969map Gratiot, Michigantags Buildings - Old Main, Alma College

    Old Main was one of most important buildings on Alma College’s campus in 1969. This building had housed many departments and classrooms, since the College’s opening day. In the first twenty-five years of Alma College, there were only five buildings on campus: Folsom Hall (gymnasium and chemistry), the library, Hood (museum), Old Main (classrooms and offices) and Pioneer Hall (dormitory).

    Old...

  24. Understanding A Letter From Birmingham Jail
    date April 16, 1963map Jefferson, Alabamatags letter, Birmingham, Alabama

    After being arrested in downtown Birmingham on a Good Friday, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous letter, “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” responding to the criticism demonstrated by eight prominent white clergy man. This letter has been found important through out history because it expresses King’s feelings toward the unjust events and it is an example of a well-written...

  25. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Walk on the Moon
    date July 16, 1969 to July 21, 1969map Harris, Texastags Science/Technology, Moon, Apollo 11

     

    On July 16, 1969, Americans Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins sat atop a Saturn V rocket and were blasted away from the surface of the Earth on a journey across 300,000 kilometers to land and walk on the Moon.  The choice of which astronaut would step on the lunar surface first came almost by chance- because Armstrong was the Commander of the flight, his seat...