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.
July 7, Abbie Hoffman’s “The Yippies are Going to Chicago” is published in The Realist. The yippie…
January 23, Pueblo Incident, capture of the USS “Pueblo,” a Navy intelligence ship, and its 83 crewmen…
August 26, Mayor Richard Daley opens the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. While the convention…
September 7, Women’s Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW, target the Miss America…