- 1. The 24th Amendment is ratified, abolishes poll tax (2020-01-23)
- (Events Calendar/The 24th Amendment is ratified, abolishes poll tax)
- The 24th Amendment is ratified, abolishes poll tax Ratified on January 23, 1964, this amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 2. Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi (2020-06-21)
- (Events Calendar/Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi)
- Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi June 21, 1964 Three civil-rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were working to register black voters in Mississippi, ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 3. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act (2020-07-02)
- (Events Calendar/President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act)
- President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act Signed by President Johnson on July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 4. High School Yearbook Request
- (Announcements)
- ... 1973, 1980, 1983, and any after 1987 or before 1947. Liberty High School 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970,1971,1972,1973,1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and any after 1980 ...
- Created on 21 February 2017
- 5. Elsie Winterberger
- (History Preserver)
- ... witnessed Elsie’s persistence first hand with her crusade in correcting decades of misspelling the town’s name. When the Forestburgh firehouse was erected in 1964, the huge, red plastic letters representing ...
- Created on 17 January 2016
- 6. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... ors of the original Acid Tests in San Francisco. Kesey had bought the farm with the earnings from his two bestsellers, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964). T ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 7. Allan Wayne Dampman
- (History Preserver)
- ... volunteering for organizations within the local community. This too, would be the course Allan would choose to follow upon his arrival in Sullivan County in 1964. When Allan graduated from Summit Hig ...
- Created on 04 April 2012
- 8. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello
- (Thompson)
- SCHS Observer; November 9, 1964 "A blue-and-gold historical marker has been erected on the front lawn of the Intercounty Trust Company in the village of Monticello to mark the site of the first buildin ...
- Created on 22 September 2011
- 9. Mystery of Missing Marker
- (Thompson)
- From the SCHS Observer; September 14, 1964 - Vol. 1, No. 3 "The mystery of the missing marker of Kiamesha Lake was solved in July with as much secrecry as the disappearance a year earlier. Some time i ...
- Created on 22 September 2011
- 10. Wilmer Sipple
- (History Preserver)
- ... ience teacher in Roscoe from 1957 until 1964 and then continued as a science teacher in Liberty from 1964 to 1982 when he retired. Wilmer's interest in the O&W Railway began to take shape in 1983, a yea ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
- 11. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge
- (History Makers)
- ... Society honors him for taking part in the 1964 Olympics and in 1966 at the Los Angeles Coliseum establishing a world record of 8230 points for the Decathlon-a record which stood for a number of years. ...
- Created on 11 August 2003
- 12. Walter A. Rhulen
- (History Makers)
- ... to the county and following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather he was concerned about the county medical facilities. As Dr. Gavis remembers, it was a wintry night in 1964 when a house call ...
- Created on 11 August 1999
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