There were several high-profile assassinations, including those of John and Robert Kennedy, as well as Martin Luther King, Jr. The Vietnam War was still raging and this, of course, led to the anti-war movement, which saw large protests across the US. As well as other social change movements from feminists and the LGBTQ community.
It was a decade of great social change with civil rights movements from African-Americans and Mexican-Americans.
60S SPACE AGE FASHION SERIES
Perhaps as a result of this, Americans, in particular, became obsessed with all things British – everything from James Bond to bands like The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, to The Avengers TV series and actors like Peter Sellers and Michael Caine. Man landed on the moon, the TV show The Flintstones premiered, Muhammad Ali won Olympic gold, the Batman TV series and Batmania swept the United States and the world, and, indeed, an even bigger craze, Beatlemania also took the world by storm. To begin with an understatement, quite a bit happened in the 1960s.
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