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Sunday in New York is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, based on Krasna's 1961 play of the same name. Filmed in Metrocolor , the film stars Cliff Robertson , Jane Fonda , and Rod Taylor , with Robert Culp , Jo Morrow , and Jim Backus .
The Americus movement was a civil rights protest that began in Americus (located in Sumter County), Georgia, United States, in 1963 and lasted until 1965. It was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee along with the NAACP .
The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [ 1 ]
June 4: The New York Times publishes a petition to end the Vietnam War, containing 6,400 signatures, including many prominent scholars and clergy. [ 291 ] June 10: After appearing in a television documentary in January, Donovan is arrested in London for possession of cannabis, and is perhaps the first notable counterculture musician to be ...
The Freedom Singers, circa 1963. The Freedom Singers originated as a quartet formed in 1962 at Albany State College in Albany, Georgia.After folk singer Pete Seeger witnessed the power of their congregational-style of singing, which fused black Baptist a cappella church singing with popular music at the time, as well as protest songs and chants.
Home of the Brave (2004), documents the life and murder of Viola Liuzzo which occurred just after her participation in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) about the 1963 Birmingham campaign and its Children's Crusade marches by schoolchildren. Dare Not Walk Alone (2006) focuses on the 1964 St. Augustine ...
By this century, the Chicago neighborhood of Albany Park was recognized as one of the most diverse ... Then Russian Jews, a group that remained dominant through the 1960s.
Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with The New York Times in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for Penthouse for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s.