Quotes About 1965

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

Lee Rainwater and William Yancey have suggested, "The year 1965 may be known in history as the time when the civil rights movement discovered, in the sense of becoming explicitly aware, that abolishing legal racism would not produce Negro equality.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

These and other measures, however, seemed relatively inconsequential in 1965 compared to a Big Four that passed by the end of the session: federal aid to elementary and secondary education, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and a civil rights act to guaranteee voting rights.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

With the sales to high-profile buyers, Bob was ready to make a serious go of his modular systems. In the January 1965 AES Journal he placed an ad: R. A. MOOG announces the availability of ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS FOR THE COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.

The idea that the English rockers were steering white Americans to authentic African American traditions would become a commonplace of rock history, but very few people were making that case in 1964 or 1965, and certainly not at Newport, where Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker were familiar faces.

A measure of that versatility was the fact that he recorded both the gentle 'Yesterday' and the high-energy 'I'm Down,' with its Little Richard–like screamed vocal line, at the same June 14, 1965, recording session.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

Softley's first album, Songs for Swingin' Survivors (Columbia), produced by Donovan's management team of Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens, is one of the three great solo folk albums released in Britain in 1965, alongside Bert Jansch's second, It Don't Bother Me, and John Renbourn.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

For aspiring folk progressives of 1965 the essential record to spin on the Dansette was Folk Roots, New Routes.

David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved, traditional nuclear family that he made it the foundation of his public persona, his comedy act, and eventually of his blockbuster sitcom.

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

The Catholic Church lost the Culture Wars in 1965 when it failed to block pornography. Within seven years, hard-core pornographic films like Deep Throat (1972) and the Devil in Miss Jones (1973) were being shown in first run theaters, and Jewish power over the culture increased accordingly.