Oh What A Year!
October 12, The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City. The games have been boycotted by 32 African nations in protest of South Africa’s participation. On the 18th Tommie Smith and John Carlos, US athletes and medalists in the 200-meter dash will further disrupt the games by performing the black power salute during the “Star-Spangled Banner” at their medal ceremony.
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist…
August 28, By most accounts, on Wednesday evening Chicago police take action against crowds of…
June 27, As the “Prague Spring” continues in Czechoslovakia Ludvik Vaculik releases his manifesto “Two Thousand Words”. This…
General Motors redesigned its A-body line for 1968, with more curvaceous, semi-fastback styling, which was a revival…