Editing 1960s (section)

====North America====
=====United States=====
[[File:Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration.jpg|thumb|[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and others at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] in 1963]]
* 1960 – [[1960 United States presidential election]] – The very close campaign was the series of four Kennedy–Nixon debates; they were the first presidential debates held on television. Kennedy won a close election.
* 1961 – President [[John F. Kennedy]] promised some more aggressive confrontation with the Soviet Union; he also established the [[Peace Corps]].
* 1963 – [[Betty Friedan]] published the book ''[[The Feminine Mystique]]'', reawakening the feminist movement and being largely responsible for its second wave.
* 1963 – Civil rights becomes a central issue as the [[Birmingham campaign]] and [[Birmingham riot of 1963|Birmingham riot]] lead to President Kennedy's [[Civil Rights Address]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] on 28 August and the [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing]].
* 1963 – Kennedy was assassinated and replaced by Vice President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. The nation was in shock. For the next half-century, conspiracy theorists concocted numerous alternative explanations to the official report that a lone gunman killed Kennedy.
* 1964 – Johnson pressed for [[civil rights]] legislation. [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This landmark piece of legislation in the United States outlawed [[racial segregation]] in schools, public places, and employment. The first black riots erupt in major cities.
* 1964 – Johnson was reelected over Conservative spokesman Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] by a wide landslide; Liberals gained full control of Congress.
* 1964 – The [[Wilderness Act]] was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on 3 September.
* 1965 – After the events of the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]], the [[National Voting Rights Act of 1965]] was lobbied for (and then signed into law) by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had caused the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.
* 1968 – U.S. president [[Richard M. Nixon]] was elected, defeating Vice President [[Hubert H. Humphrey]], in November.
* 1969 – U.S. president [[Richard Nixon]] was inaugurated in January 1969; he promised "peace with honor" to end the [[Vietnam War]].

=====Canada=====
* [[The Quiet Revolution]] in Quebec altered the province-city-state into a more secular society. The Jean Lesage [[Quebec Liberal Party|Liberal]] government created a welfare state (''État-Providence'') and fomented the rise of active nationalism among Francophone French-speaking Quebecer Québécois.
* On 15 February 1965, the new [[flag of Canada]] was adopted in Canada after a much-anticipated debate known as the [[Great Canadian flag debate]].
* In 1960, the [[Canadian Bill of Rights]] becomes law and suffrage (as well as the right for any Canadian citizen to vote) was finally adopted by John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government. The new election act allowed [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|First Nations]] people to vote for the first time.

=====Mexico=====
* The student and [[New Left]] protests in 1968 coincided with political upheavals in a number of other countries. Although these events often sprung from completely different causes, they were influenced by reports and images of what was happening in the United States and France.<ref>Jaime Pensado, "The (forgotten) Sixties in Mexico." ''The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture'' (2008) 1#1: 83–90.</ref>

[[File:Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda.jpg|thumb|150px|By the late 1960s, Argentine revolutionary [[Che Guevara]]'s [[Guerrillero Heroico|famous image]] had become a popular symbol of rebellion for the New Left]]