John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. For the first time, presidential candidates engaged in televised debates. Photo: Civil rights leaders meet with the president in the oval office. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. Source: Library of Congress.
1960Photo: President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination. Also in the presidential limousine are Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie. Source: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News. Work in public domain; copyright expired in 1991 without renewal.
1963Citizens’ Crusade Against Poverty (CCC’s predecessor) established. Photo: Demonstrators participating in the Poor People’s March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. Source: United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division.
Kerner Commission appointed to investigate heightening racial tension and riots occurring across the U.S. Photo: President Lyndon B. Johnson with some members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
1967Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles after winning CA presidential primary. Photo: Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. Source: United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division.
1968Published: Hunger USA. Photo: Mrs. John Whitehead, wife of miner, and two of her children (or grandchildren) in the kitchen of her three room house. The house has no running water, no electricity, access is over a mountain trail. By Russell Lee. Kentucky, August 31, 1946. Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
Photo: Close-up view of an astronaut’s leg and foot and footprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity. By Neil Armstrong , July 20, 1969. Source: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Information Agency.
1969Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) passed. The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and is implemented by Regulation […]
1977Unprecedented numbers of women and children fleeing violence in Central America cross the border into the U.S., sparking a humanitarian crisis. In this July 12, 2014, photo, a young boy is helped down from a freight car, as Central American migrants board a northbound freight train in Ixtepec, Mexico. Many smugglers take their charges from […]
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