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We are attempting to make a 50th anniversary yearbook (of sorts). This will be made available on the private Facebook site for the reunion members (link above). Also, if you are interested in submitting your information for inclusion in this yearbook, please fill out the form below.
The form is confidential to this website. It is not accessible or viewable by the public
Put the following information shown here only (use the form below)
1 recent pic *send to [email protected] or [email protected]
2 where you live what city but not the address
3 brief career info
4 wife/husband
5 comments
6 why CHS did something special for you
150-200 words max total, please
Put the following information shown here only (use the form below)
1 recent pic *send to [email protected] or [email protected]
2 where you live what city but not the address
3 brief career info
4 wife/husband
5 comments
6 why CHS did something special for you
150-200 words max total, please
THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO GOVT RESTRICTIONS FOR COVID-19 -- FURTHER INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW!
Report is now as of 27 Sept 20 that this event will be held some time in 2021 - no further details at this time
Central High School – Class of 1970
50th Class Reunion
June 5th and June 6th, 2020 Are you ready for some great partying?? A party with the most wonderful classmates and friendships? A party to reunite you and your old friends from Central, friends you have not seen in who knows how long? Parties that will bring back some your fondest memories from the day, parties that will bring us all together again? Well, I am!!!! Here’s the info!!!! The cost will be $70.00 per person if you pay by March 1, 2020 (postmarked by this date!). After that, it will increase to $80.00 per person. We have expenses to pay in advance, and it’s not fair to the committee to foot the bill.
There will be no payments at the door, with some exceptions. We have to pay for venues, expenses, food and drink costs.
Mail your checks to:
Brenda Malone Phelps
5984 Diplomat Place
Bartlett, TN 38134
Friday – June 5th
SMOKE FREE
Neil’s Music Room
5727 Quince Rd. Memphis, TN 38119
Mix, Mingle and Greet from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cash bar and order your own food.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served. 8:30 p.m. – A band will play our music. Dress is casual.
Saturday Night – June 6th, 2020
SMOKE FREE
Club Windward
3740 Canada Rd.
Lakeland, TN 38002
Cocktail Hour will begin at 6:00 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres being served. The buffet and sit-down dinner will begin at 7:00. A few announcements will be made at 8:00 and then a DJ takes over, playing our music. This is an open bar event and it can be a little dressy. Their food is awesome. Remember, this is a full sit-down dinner. You have already paid for it and for all of your drinks. It’s an open bar.
If anyone wants to donate door prizes, please feel free to do so.
If you have any questions, contact:
Patsy Pence Connell 901-586-7580 [email protected]
Brenda Malone Phelps 901-233-0855 [email protected]
Betsy McCormick Tate 901-233-5413 [email protected]
Andy Thomas 901-409-0640 [email protected]
OUR 50TH IS A PRETTY IMPORTANT EVENT IN OUR LIVES. THIS WILL BE THE LAST BIG REUNION EXCEPT FOR GET TOGETHERS EVERY NOW AND THEN. LET’S MAKE THIS A REUNION TO REMEMBER AND HAVE A BIG WARRIOR TURNOUT!!!!!
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Postcard of Central High School about 1911 or 1912
Very early photo of Central High School about 1911 or 1912 (Pink Palace Collection - Memphis Public Library)
Central High School about 1917
Central High School, Memphis, TN in 2009
Central High School, Memphis, TN in 2015
Memphis, Tennessee from the Air in 2009
Memphis about 1865 - View looking north from the Ft Pickering area
Timeline for 1967, 68, 69, & 70
1967
Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000-50,000 attend in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.
Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border.
Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday.
Mar - Scientist reports LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).
Mar 3 - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow").
Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies.
Mar 13 - Senator Eugene McCarthy introduces the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Senate. He had 37 co-sponsors.
Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores.
Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend.
Apr 5 - Grayline tour bus company starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury.
Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations.
Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have "dropped acid.".
May 9-12 - Boston to Pentagon Walk for Peace and sit-in inside Pentagon.
May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC
May 26 - The Food and Drug Administration reports that there are no known psychedelics in banana peels
June 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released.
June 9 - Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened
June 16 - Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Mamas & the Papas, Ravi Shankar, and many others perform.
June 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park.
June 25 - Beatle Song, "All You Need Is Love" debuts on T.V., 100,000 flower children now in the Haight-Ashbury area.
June 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam.
July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco.
July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore.
July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1.
July 7 - Time magazine cover: The Hippies, The Philosophy of a subculture.
July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer.
July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history.
July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland.
July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1.
Aug 7 - George Harrison pays a visit to Haight-Ashbury.
Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" hits the charts.
Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death, overdose.
Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru.
Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl.
Oct 3 - Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies.
Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops.
Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts.
Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon.
Oct 21 - "Diggers" exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested.
Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment.
Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution.
Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established.
Dec - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour".
Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967.
Dec - "Stop the Draft" movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue.
Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London.
Dec 8 - Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay".
Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash.
Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid.
Nov 30 - Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the presidential race running on an antiwar platform.
Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies".
1968
Jan 1 - The United Nations inaugurates the International Year of Human Rights.
Jan 15 - The Jeanette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women's peace groups, demonstrates against the Vietnam war at the opening of Congress. 5000 women attend.
Jan 16 - Youth International Party (Yippies) founded.
Jan 18 - Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war.
Jan 21 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins; 5,000 Marines isolated and under attack by 20,000 North
Vietnamese troops.
Jan 22 - B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland.
Jan 23 - USS Pueblo seized by Korea.
Jan 31 - Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive a massive 25-day assault throughout South Vietnam, surprising the US forces by its size and scope. Antiwar sentiment in US increases.
Feb - Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house.
Feb - Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh on the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow.
Feb 4 - Neal Cassady, Beatnik, Dharma Bum, Merry Prankster, found dead in Mexico.
Feb 8 - George Wallace announces candidacy for President on law and order platform. Senator Robert Kennedy says the US cannot win the Vietnam War.
Feb 13 - US sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
Feb 16 - President Johnson ends draft deferments for graduate students.
Mar 6 - Walter Cronkite, breaking a code of neutrality among major newscasters, opposes the Vietnam War in a national television broadcast.
Mar 9 - General William Westmoreland requests 206,000 more troops for Vietnam.
Mar 12 - Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential primary.
Mar 16 - My Lai massacre 200 - 500 Vietnamese villagers killed. LBJ decides to send 35,000 to 50,000 more combat troops to Vietnam. Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President.
Mar 31 - LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial Vietnam bombing halt. Gallup Poll shows only 26 percent approve of Johnson's handling of the war.
Apr 4 - Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
Apr 5-12 - The week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder sees black uprisings in 125 cities across the U.S.
Apr 6 - Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver arrested with a bullet-shattered leg. Bobby Hutton shot and killed.
Apr 8 - Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (DEA).
Apr 11 - LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination. Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam. Love-in at Malibu Canyon, California.
Apr 15 - Start of Spring Mobilization against the Vietnam war. Chicago Mayor Daley tries to get his city under control during riots; orders "shoot-to-kill" in cases of arson, looting, or rioting.
Apr 23 - SDS leads students, takes over 5 buildings at Colombia University for a week. 700 arrested.
Apr 24 - 300 Black students occupy administration building at Boston Univ. demanding black studies and financial aid.
Apr 25 - Paul Horn, flautist, records in the Taj Mahal.
Apr 26 - Two hundred thousand students boycott classes to protest war.
Apr 29 - The rock musical HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater.
May 6-30 - Student demonstrations in France result in a general strike. Ten million workers strike as 10,000 battle police in Paris.
May 10 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
May 29 - Poor People's Campaign protesters storm Supreme Court building.
June 3 - Andy Warhol shot by Valerie Solanis, author of S.C.U.M. manifesto.
June 5 - Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning California primary.
June 10 - General Westmoreland sees no military victory in Vietnam due to political restraints.
June 14 - Dr. Benjamin Spock and three others convicted of conspiracy to abet draft evasion.
June 24 - National Guard ordered out in Washington D.C. as looting breaks out in black section of city.
July 1 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by 61 nations.
July 20 - LBJ tells South Vietnamese President Thieu the US will continue Vietnam War at current pace.
July 25 - Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes calls National Guard back to slum areas.
Aug 1 - 541,000 U.S. Troops in Vietnam.
Aug 8 - Nixon and Agnew nominated during Miami riots.
Aug 10 - Eight GIs killed by friendly fire in Vietnam. Senator George McGovern announces candidacy for President.
Aug 21 - Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" reform movement.
August 25-29 - Democratic Convention in Chicago. Demonstrations & police riot 10,000 demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI, CIA & other services agents
Aug 28 - Humphrey and Muskie nominated (on platform supporting the war) amid violent antiwar protests in Chicago. Bystanders and press also beaten by police.
Oct 18 - John & Yoko Busted. Two black Olympians raise fists in black power salute when receiving medals at Olympics.
Nov - First "Whole Earth Catalog" published by Stewart Brand.
Nov 5 - Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP. Defeated Humphrey by only half a million votes.
Nov 6 - Student Strike at SF State.
Nov 28 - More than 200 women from 37 states and Canada convene in Chicago for the first national Women's Liberation Conference. Jimi Hendrix performs at New Youk Philharmonic Hall.
Dec 13 - Vietnam death toll now 30,057 Americans since January 1, 1961.
1969
Jan - Sex education in schools attacked by the John Birch Society, called "communist".
Jan 28 - Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout.
Feb - Massive strike at University of California Berkeley for ethnic studies.
Feb - "The Bitch Manifesto." published by the radical feminist group Redstockings. They sought to raise the consciousness of women.
Feb 11 - 200 students smash computers with axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in protesting professor's racism at St. George Williams College, Montreal.
Feb 13 - 33 students arrested at administration building sit-in at University of Mass.
Feb 18 - Students seize building and boycott started at Howard University.
Feb 24 - Students occupy Administration building at Penn State.
Feb 27 - Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders at U.C. Berkeley.
Feb 27 - Thousands rampage through nine buildings at U of Wisconsin, Madison over black enrollments.
Mar 12 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman.
Mar 20 - John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie-in" for peace.
Mar 20 - James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Apr - 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam.
Apr 4 - Smothers Brothers TV show canceled because it is too controversial.
Apr 9 - 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize University Hall and evict eight deans.
Apr 10 - Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested.
Apr 11 - Start of 3 day student strike at Harvard.
Apr 22 - Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty.
Apr 22 - City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment.
Apr 23 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy.
Apr 24 - U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests in 40 cities.
May 15 - Hippies in People's Park in Berkeley attacked by police and National Guard.
July - Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.
July 3 - Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies.
July 14 - Easy Rider premieres.
July 20 - Men walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.".
July 27 - Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results in Stonewall Uprising. 2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay Liberation Movement.
Aug - Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic.
Aug 9 - Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered by Charles Manson & Crew.
August 15 - 17 Woodstock Music Festival draws 500,000 people gathered for three days of music and peace that changed the world.
Aug 24 - Movie 'Alice's Restaurant' released with Arlo Guthrie.
Aug 26 - FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 - 1968.
Sept 3 - Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies.
Sept 24 - Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots.
Oct - Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy.
Oct 8-11 - The Weathermen's "Days of Rage" bombings of corporations.
Oct 15 - Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide, many wearing black armbands. First Vietnam Moratorium. 30,000 participate in Candlelight March past White House, lead by Martin Luther King Jr.
Oct 21 - Jack Kerouac, beat author of "On the Road" dies.
Oct 30 - Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide.
Nov 15 - 500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair. 200,000 protest in San Francisco.
Nov 17 - First round of SALT talks in Helsinki.
Nov 20 - 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return.
Nov 20 - DDT use banned in residential areas.
Nov 24 - Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 So. Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
Nov 25 - President Nixon orders all US germ warfare stockpiles destroyed.
Dec 1 - First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC.
Dec 8 - Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA - four hour shoot-out.
Dec 24 - Rolling Stones "Altamont" concert erupts in violence, one spectator killed.
1970
January 1 - Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Feb - Timothy Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas/Mex marijuana bust.
Feb 4 - Riot in Isla Vista, Calif. protesting Chicago verdicts.
Feb 4 - President Nixon proposes environmental cleanup and Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb 18 - Chicago Seven acquitted of conspiracy charges.
Feb 19 - Chicago Seven Trial verdict: Dellinger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman, & Rubin found guilty of crossing state lines to incite riot.
Feb 19 - Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; and in Calif; Wash; Maryland; Mich, possibly done by the Weathermen.
Feb 25 - Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America bombed.
Feb 26 - U.S. Army discontinues surveillance of civilian demonstrations and files of demonstrators.
Mar 6 - Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village, NY.
Apr 1 - Cigarette advertising banned on radio and TV.
Apr 7 - Referring to student unrest, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California says; "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."
Apr 10 - Paul McCartney announces breakup of Beatles.
Apr 22 - First Earth Day. Millions participate.
Apr 30 - Nixon sends troops into Cambodia.
May 4 - Four College Students Killed by National Guard at Kent State University, Ohio.
May 5 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty takes effect.
May 8 - Construction workers attack antiwar demonstrators, Wall St., NY.
May 9 - 100,000 attend antiwar rally, Wash. D.C.
May 14 - Police kill two at Jackson State during violent student demonstrations.
Jun 15 - Supreme Court OKs conscientious objector status on moral grounds.
June 11 - Daniel Berrigan arrested by FBI for kidnapping/bombing conspiracy.
Aug 10 - The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 350-15.
Aug 26 - The "Women's Strike for Equality" organized by NOW celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. 50,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York and across the country more than 100,000 women were involved in demonstrations and rallies in more than 90 major cities and towns.
Sept 12 - Timothy Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help from the Weather Underground, joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers.
Sept 18 - Jimi Hendrix dead at age 27.
Oct 4 - Janis Joplin dies.
Oct 13 - Angela Davis arrested on kidnapping, murder and conspiracy charges.
Dec - Paul McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles.
Dec 2 - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated.
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Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000-50,000 attend in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.
Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border.
Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday.
Mar - Scientist reports LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).
Mar 3 - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow").
Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies.
Mar 13 - Senator Eugene McCarthy introduces the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Senate. He had 37 co-sponsors.
Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores.
Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend.
Apr 5 - Grayline tour bus company starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury.
Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations.
Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have "dropped acid.".
May 9-12 - Boston to Pentagon Walk for Peace and sit-in inside Pentagon.
May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC
May 26 - The Food and Drug Administration reports that there are no known psychedelics in banana peels
June 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released.
June 9 - Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened
June 16 - Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Mamas & the Papas, Ravi Shankar, and many others perform.
June 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park.
June 25 - Beatle Song, "All You Need Is Love" debuts on T.V., 100,000 flower children now in the Haight-Ashbury area.
June 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam.
July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco.
July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore.
July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1.
July 7 - Time magazine cover: The Hippies, The Philosophy of a subculture.
July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer.
July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history.
July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland.
July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1.
Aug 7 - George Harrison pays a visit to Haight-Ashbury.
Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" hits the charts.
Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death, overdose.
Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru.
Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl.
Oct 3 - Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies.
Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops.
Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts.
Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon.
Oct 21 - "Diggers" exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested.
Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment.
Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution.
Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established.
Dec - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour".
Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967.
Dec - "Stop the Draft" movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue.
Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London.
Dec 8 - Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay".
Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash.
Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid.
Nov 30 - Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the presidential race running on an antiwar platform.
Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies".
1968
Jan 1 - The United Nations inaugurates the International Year of Human Rights.
Jan 15 - The Jeanette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women's peace groups, demonstrates against the Vietnam war at the opening of Congress. 5000 women attend.
Jan 16 - Youth International Party (Yippies) founded.
Jan 18 - Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war.
Jan 21 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins; 5,000 Marines isolated and under attack by 20,000 North
Vietnamese troops.
Jan 22 - B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland.
Jan 23 - USS Pueblo seized by Korea.
Jan 31 - Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive a massive 25-day assault throughout South Vietnam, surprising the US forces by its size and scope. Antiwar sentiment in US increases.
Feb - Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house.
Feb - Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh on the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow.
Feb 4 - Neal Cassady, Beatnik, Dharma Bum, Merry Prankster, found dead in Mexico.
Feb 8 - George Wallace announces candidacy for President on law and order platform. Senator Robert Kennedy says the US cannot win the Vietnam War.
Feb 13 - US sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
Feb 16 - President Johnson ends draft deferments for graduate students.
Mar 6 - Walter Cronkite, breaking a code of neutrality among major newscasters, opposes the Vietnam War in a national television broadcast.
Mar 9 - General William Westmoreland requests 206,000 more troops for Vietnam.
Mar 12 - Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential primary.
Mar 16 - My Lai massacre 200 - 500 Vietnamese villagers killed. LBJ decides to send 35,000 to 50,000 more combat troops to Vietnam. Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President.
Mar 31 - LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial Vietnam bombing halt. Gallup Poll shows only 26 percent approve of Johnson's handling of the war.
Apr 4 - Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
Apr 5-12 - The week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder sees black uprisings in 125 cities across the U.S.
Apr 6 - Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver arrested with a bullet-shattered leg. Bobby Hutton shot and killed.
Apr 8 - Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (DEA).
Apr 11 - LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination. Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam. Love-in at Malibu Canyon, California.
Apr 15 - Start of Spring Mobilization against the Vietnam war. Chicago Mayor Daley tries to get his city under control during riots; orders "shoot-to-kill" in cases of arson, looting, or rioting.
Apr 23 - SDS leads students, takes over 5 buildings at Colombia University for a week. 700 arrested.
Apr 24 - 300 Black students occupy administration building at Boston Univ. demanding black studies and financial aid.
Apr 25 - Paul Horn, flautist, records in the Taj Mahal.
Apr 26 - Two hundred thousand students boycott classes to protest war.
Apr 29 - The rock musical HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater.
May 6-30 - Student demonstrations in France result in a general strike. Ten million workers strike as 10,000 battle police in Paris.
May 10 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
May 29 - Poor People's Campaign protesters storm Supreme Court building.
June 3 - Andy Warhol shot by Valerie Solanis, author of S.C.U.M. manifesto.
June 5 - Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning California primary.
June 10 - General Westmoreland sees no military victory in Vietnam due to political restraints.
June 14 - Dr. Benjamin Spock and three others convicted of conspiracy to abet draft evasion.
June 24 - National Guard ordered out in Washington D.C. as looting breaks out in black section of city.
July 1 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by 61 nations.
July 20 - LBJ tells South Vietnamese President Thieu the US will continue Vietnam War at current pace.
July 25 - Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes calls National Guard back to slum areas.
Aug 1 - 541,000 U.S. Troops in Vietnam.
Aug 8 - Nixon and Agnew nominated during Miami riots.
Aug 10 - Eight GIs killed by friendly fire in Vietnam. Senator George McGovern announces candidacy for President.
Aug 21 - Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" reform movement.
August 25-29 - Democratic Convention in Chicago. Demonstrations & police riot 10,000 demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI, CIA & other services agents
Aug 28 - Humphrey and Muskie nominated (on platform supporting the war) amid violent antiwar protests in Chicago. Bystanders and press also beaten by police.
Oct 18 - John & Yoko Busted. Two black Olympians raise fists in black power salute when receiving medals at Olympics.
Nov - First "Whole Earth Catalog" published by Stewart Brand.
Nov 5 - Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP. Defeated Humphrey by only half a million votes.
Nov 6 - Student Strike at SF State.
Nov 28 - More than 200 women from 37 states and Canada convene in Chicago for the first national Women's Liberation Conference. Jimi Hendrix performs at New Youk Philharmonic Hall.
Dec 13 - Vietnam death toll now 30,057 Americans since January 1, 1961.
1969
Jan - Sex education in schools attacked by the John Birch Society, called "communist".
Jan 28 - Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout.
Feb - Massive strike at University of California Berkeley for ethnic studies.
Feb - "The Bitch Manifesto." published by the radical feminist group Redstockings. They sought to raise the consciousness of women.
Feb 11 - 200 students smash computers with axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in protesting professor's racism at St. George Williams College, Montreal.
Feb 13 - 33 students arrested at administration building sit-in at University of Mass.
Feb 18 - Students seize building and boycott started at Howard University.
Feb 24 - Students occupy Administration building at Penn State.
Feb 27 - Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders at U.C. Berkeley.
Feb 27 - Thousands rampage through nine buildings at U of Wisconsin, Madison over black enrollments.
Mar 12 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman.
Mar 20 - John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie-in" for peace.
Mar 20 - James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Apr - 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam.
Apr 4 - Smothers Brothers TV show canceled because it is too controversial.
Apr 9 - 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize University Hall and evict eight deans.
Apr 10 - Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested.
Apr 11 - Start of 3 day student strike at Harvard.
Apr 22 - Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty.
Apr 22 - City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment.
Apr 23 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy.
Apr 24 - U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests in 40 cities.
May 15 - Hippies in People's Park in Berkeley attacked by police and National Guard.
July - Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.
July 3 - Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies.
July 14 - Easy Rider premieres.
July 20 - Men walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.".
July 27 - Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results in Stonewall Uprising. 2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay Liberation Movement.
Aug - Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic.
Aug 9 - Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered by Charles Manson & Crew.
August 15 - 17 Woodstock Music Festival draws 500,000 people gathered for three days of music and peace that changed the world.
Aug 24 - Movie 'Alice's Restaurant' released with Arlo Guthrie.
Aug 26 - FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 - 1968.
Sept 3 - Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies.
Sept 24 - Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots.
Oct - Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy.
Oct 8-11 - The Weathermen's "Days of Rage" bombings of corporations.
Oct 15 - Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide, many wearing black armbands. First Vietnam Moratorium. 30,000 participate in Candlelight March past White House, lead by Martin Luther King Jr.
Oct 21 - Jack Kerouac, beat author of "On the Road" dies.
Oct 30 - Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide.
Nov 15 - 500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair. 200,000 protest in San Francisco.
Nov 17 - First round of SALT talks in Helsinki.
Nov 20 - 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return.
Nov 20 - DDT use banned in residential areas.
Nov 24 - Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 So. Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
Nov 25 - President Nixon orders all US germ warfare stockpiles destroyed.
Dec 1 - First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC.
Dec 8 - Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA - four hour shoot-out.
Dec 24 - Rolling Stones "Altamont" concert erupts in violence, one spectator killed.
1970
January 1 - Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Feb - Timothy Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas/Mex marijuana bust.
Feb 4 - Riot in Isla Vista, Calif. protesting Chicago verdicts.
Feb 4 - President Nixon proposes environmental cleanup and Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb 18 - Chicago Seven acquitted of conspiracy charges.
Feb 19 - Chicago Seven Trial verdict: Dellinger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman, & Rubin found guilty of crossing state lines to incite riot.
Feb 19 - Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; and in Calif; Wash; Maryland; Mich, possibly done by the Weathermen.
Feb 25 - Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America bombed.
Feb 26 - U.S. Army discontinues surveillance of civilian demonstrations and files of demonstrators.
Mar 6 - Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village, NY.
Apr 1 - Cigarette advertising banned on radio and TV.
Apr 7 - Referring to student unrest, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California says; "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."
Apr 10 - Paul McCartney announces breakup of Beatles.
Apr 22 - First Earth Day. Millions participate.
Apr 30 - Nixon sends troops into Cambodia.
May 4 - Four College Students Killed by National Guard at Kent State University, Ohio.
May 5 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty takes effect.
May 8 - Construction workers attack antiwar demonstrators, Wall St., NY.
May 9 - 100,000 attend antiwar rally, Wash. D.C.
May 14 - Police kill two at Jackson State during violent student demonstrations.
Jun 15 - Supreme Court OKs conscientious objector status on moral grounds.
June 11 - Daniel Berrigan arrested by FBI for kidnapping/bombing conspiracy.
Aug 10 - The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 350-15.
Aug 26 - The "Women's Strike for Equality" organized by NOW celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. 50,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York and across the country more than 100,000 women were involved in demonstrations and rallies in more than 90 major cities and towns.
Sept 12 - Timothy Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help from the Weather Underground, joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers.
Sept 18 - Jimi Hendrix dead at age 27.
Oct 4 - Janis Joplin dies.
Oct 13 - Angela Davis arrested on kidnapping, murder and conspiracy charges.
Dec - Paul McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles.
Dec 2 - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated.
http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/timeline.htm
Old Memphis High School - opened in 1898 (closed in 1911 when CHS opened) - picture at Washington Ave. and N. Lauderdale/Yates Sts. - 1960 photo (Pink Palace Collection - Memphis Public Library) - this building was demolished in Nov, 1965. - official address was 317 Poplar Ave. (this is the back of the school building)
Map of Memphis in 1914 - Yellow Arrow is the location of the old Memphis High School as shown in the photos above and below, and Central High School is located at the Green Arrow at #19; the Red Arrow is the Memphis High School later after it moved - See the History Page on this Web Site for more Information
Map of Memphis in 1871 (for comparison) - this is the oldest known map of the entire greater Memphis area at that time in any detail although a military map drawn in 1863 by the US Army exists but does not have the level of detail of this 1871 map - note too where the area of Central High is on this map - very little developed around that part of Memphis then other than Union Ave was there (you may download this map at: http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15138coll23/id/9216/rec/12)
View from the Poplar Ave side of the Old Memphis High School (an Exxon Station sits there on Poplar today)