Timeline of Events
- 1960
- Dolores Huerta and César Chávez form the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), an agricultural workers labor union.
- January 4, 1960
- The United Steel Workers agree on a settlement to end the longest steel strike in U.S. history. The strike had started in July 1959.
- February 1, 1960
- Four black students request service at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. They politely begin a "sit-in" to protest not being served. Their nonviolent protest sparks a new form of civil rights protest that quickly spreads throughout the American South.
- May 1960
- The oral contraceptive pill, known as "the pill," is approved for distribution throughout the United States.
- May 6, 1960
- The Civil Rights Act of 1960 is approved to protect black voting rights. However, the law's loopholes make it...
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