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The urban crisis of the 1960s continued to escalate in the 1970s, with major episodes of riots in many cities every summer. The postwar suburbanization boom had left America's inner cities neglected, as middle-class whites gradually moved out. Rundown housing was increasingly filled by an underclass, with high unemployment rates and high crime ...
This was the second census (see also 1960) to show a decline in the combined total population of the top ten cities, with 1,142,003 (5.2%) fewer people than the 1970 Census' top ten cities, mostly due to the large drop in population of New York City.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) begins operations, succeeding National Educational Television (NET). 1970 – Singer-songwriter-guitarist-musician Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age 27. 1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created.
The history of Dallas, Texas, United States, from 1946 to 1974 concerns the city during the mid-20th century. President Kennedy and his wife Jackie arriving at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, 22 November 1963
1849 – US Army Department of Texas's "Camp Worth" was founded at the junction of the Clear Fork and West Fork as the northernmost of a system of forts for protecting the American Frontier following the end of the Mexican–American War. [1] [2] [3] 1855 – Masonic Hall built. [4] 1856 – Fort Worth became seat of Tarrant County. [4] 1873
Pride events in Texas date back to the 1970s, following the June 1969 riots at New York City's Stonewall Inn. ... the cities of Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso passed non-discrimination ...
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.