1960s Scavenger Hunt

The Other America

(1962)-This novel was an influential study of poverty in the U.S, published by Michael Harrington & it was a driving force behind the "war on poverty." 1/5 of U.S was living below poverty line.

Wilma Rudolph

- 1st African American woman to win 3 gold medals - The Olympic Games in Rome

1960 debates

- Kennedy v. Nixon - first televised presidential debates in American history - new era of making public image good was essential to politics - Kennedy won

Smokey Robinson

- Motown - The Miracles - "Shop Around" - He wrote "My Girl" for the Temptations

The Bell Jar

- Novel about a young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams. She must overcome suicidal tendencies. - It highlights the problems with oppressive patriarchal society in mid-20th-century America. Written by Sylvia Plath

Roger Maris

- October 1961, New York Yankee becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season (breaking home-run record)

Gladys Knight

- The Empress of Soul - The Pips - Letter Full of Tears - Everybody Needs Love - First hit: Johnny Otis's "Every Beat of My Heart" - Major hit single, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Motown

Flintstones

- The first animated series on prime-time television - The show is set in a comical, satirical version of the Stone Age which, although it uses primitive technology, resembles mid-20th-century suburban America

The Sound of Silence

- a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel

I Dream of Jeannie

- an American fantasy sitcom - 2,000-year-old genie and an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries

Twiggy

- best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s - known for her thin build and her androgynous look consisting of big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair

Camelot

- counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964 - the goal of the project was to enhance the Army's ability to predict and influence social developments in foreign countries - The Department of Defense ostensibly canceled it in 1965, but continued the same research more discreetly

Texas Instruments

- first electronic hand-held calculator - The Apollo Lunar Exploration Module containing TI components lands on the moon during this decade

Simon and Garfunkel

- music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate - "Sound of Silence" - became counterculture icons of the decade's social revolution

Dick van Dyke Show

- showed real-life problems that many couples of the period were dealing with - It centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Van Dyke)

Silent Spring

A book written to voice the concerns of environmentalists. Launched the environmentalist movement by pointing out the effects of civilization development.

The Graduate

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter (1967).

Haight-Ashbury

A district noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement

Audrey Hepburn

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Miss America

By 1968, feminists stormed the boardwalk in Atlantic City in their crusade for equal rights. They used this as a symbol for their fight, which encouraged even more change for the organization

Unsafe at Any Speed

By Ralph Nader. It attacked the automotive industry for its lack of concerns for passenger safety

NOW

National Organization of Women, an american feminist organization founded in 1966

NERF

Nerf ball released

Malcolm X

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s

Valley of the Dolls

The novel tells the story of three young women who become fast friends in the turbulent post-war worlds of Broadway and Hollywood

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Engel v. Vitale

the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools

The Temptations

"My Girl" (motown)

Dr. Strangelove

a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States

Cesar Chavez

an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962

Sound of Music

film musical that won 5 academy awards

Shirley Chisholm

first African American woman elected to Congress

John Glenn

first American to orbit the Earth in 1962

Alan Shepard

he became the first American to travel into space