1960's- Civil Unrest

In the 1960's protests for the Vietnam War were at there peak and the Civil Rights movement was in full swing. With the March on Washington in 1963 the Civil rights movement was the number one priority in the eyes of the public and politicians. A bill was passed for equal pay for men and women. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In 1968Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were gunned down.