May 20th 1962: Diahann Carroll on “What’s My Line”
This is my master post for the 1960s. It should have all the main posts I have done – or should do – on the 1960s, especially in regard of US Black history. Add your own suggestions!
1960: Nigeria, Niger, Gabon, Somalia, D.R. Congo, Cyprus, Sharpeville massacre, SNCC, SDS, neocolonialism, CFA franc, James Baldwin on the police.
- book: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- film:
- television:
- music:
- word: military-industrial complex
- invention: the pill
1961: John Kennedy, Freedom Riders, Lumumba, Trujillo, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Brown Corpus.
- book: The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon); Nobody Knows My Name (James Baldwin); Black Like Me.
- film:
- television:
- music:
- word:
- invention: man in space (Yuri Gagarin), UTC.
1962: Algeria, Uganda, James Meredith, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vatican II, Warhol.
- book:
- film: James Bond
- television:
- music:
- word:
- invention: Telstar
1963: Lyndon Johnson, Kenya, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Birmingham protests, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Baldwin-Kennedy meeting, March on Washington, The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
- book: The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin); Blues People (LeRoi Jones).
- film: Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor)
- television: Doctor Who
- music:
- word: racism
- invention: cassette tape
1964: Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Tanzania, Muhammad Ali, Fannie Lou Hamer, Freedom Summer, Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman, Civil Rights Act, That Norman Rockwell painting, “Racism is dead”, John Powell (killed by NYPD), gentrification.
- book: A Moveable Feast (Hemingway)
- film: Sidney Poitier
- television: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- music: Nina Simone, Motown, The Supremes, Diana Ross, David Ruffin.
- word:
- invention:
1965: Selma, Voting Rights Act, Immigration Act, Moynihan Report, Black illegitimacy argument, affirmative action, Watts riot, Northeast blackout, Asian brain drain, Indonesian mass killings, Ford LTD,
- book: Fowler’s; At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (Che Guevara).
- film:
- television: Bill Cosby.
- music: John Coltrane, Bob Dylan.
- word: whitey
- invention: minicomputer
1966: Black Power, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther Party, Afros, model minority stereotype, Donyale Luna, Twiggy, Cultural Revolution (China), Indira Gandhi, Peace Corps in Niger.
- book:
- film:
- television: Star Trek (with Nichelle Nichols); How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
- music: James Brown
- word:
- invention:
1967: Flower Power, Loving v Virginia, Thurgood Marshall, Biafra, Six Day War, Gaza, Holocaust denial, Huey P. Newton, H. Rap Brown, Detroit riot, Riverside speech, Poor People’s Campaign, Noam Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, McLuhan, White ethnographic gaze.
- book: Black Power (Kwame Ture & Charles V. Hamilton)
- film:
- television:
- music: Marvin Gaye, Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin.
- word:
- invention:
1968: Red Power, The Southern strategy, George Wallace, RFK, MLK killed, RFK killed, Kerner Commission, “Black is beautiful”, Naomi Sims, John Carlos, Fair Housing Act, blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise, Orangeburg Massacre, My Lai, the whole earth, Christie (Barbie’s friend), tokenism, Prague, Apollo 8.
- book: Stand on Zanzibar; Whole Earth Catalog.
- film: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick); Planet of the Apes (with Linda Harrison); The Lion in Winter;
- television: Julia (with Diahann Carroll), Ellen Holly, The Little Drummer Boy
- music:
- word:
- invention:
1969: Richard Nixon, Fred Hampton, Cointelpro, The Occupation of Alcatraz.
- book: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou); Black Theology and Black Power (James Cone).
- film:
- television:
- music: Woodstock
- word:
- invention: man on the moon, ARPAnet (will become the Internet).
– Abagond, 2018.
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Sorry, but where are the Prague-1968, Budapest-1968, Bulgaria-1968 and, least but not last, le Paris-1968?
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@ A Russian Nagpo
I added Prague. Thanks.
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