Guess the Year Game - Sixties   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 7 | 8 News & Noteworthy In The '60s, the world turned upside down. Civil rights were won for African Americans (called Negroes back then), the first American went up in space, and women fought for their own liberation. President, John F. Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert Kennedy, and the civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King were all assassinated during the decade. The Vietnam war was bitterly protested in the streets. The '60s was a time that had never been seen before.