A man on the Moon, nukes on standby, sexual liberation, the Vietnam War…
Key events that helped define the 60s. The Greensboro Four
On February 1, 1960, four black men in Greensboro, North Carolina sat down at Woolworth’s all-white luncheon counter and demanded to be served. The second day, 20 more joined them. The third, 100 more. Joe McNeil, one of the original four, said, “Before long it was probably fifteen or twenty cities, and that’s when we had our thing going.”
Birth Control Pill
In May 1960, Enovid, the first birth-control pill for use as a contraceptive, was approved. Within five years, 6.5 million American women were on the pill. The Pope condemned it. Southern states fought it. But the Supreme Court ruled in its favour. An equaliser, a…
