But the social gains that minorities made in the nineteen sixties and seventies led the way to shows like "The Jeffersons."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

In the nineteen sixties, Ray Davis Junior used the mine for his work showing the existence of solar neutrinos.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The White House was the largest house in the country until after the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He did so after witnessing the popularity of the activity himself during a trip to New Zealand in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2011.06.28

Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel combined rock and roll with folk and pop to create their sound in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

He succeeded in beginning that process, though black Americans did not gain full civil rights until the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history to lead the nation during a civil war in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

In the nineteen sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the Beatles and Burt Bacharach.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Benjamin was a lawyer. He had been a General in the Union Army during America's Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The hunger for news of the Civil War in the eighteen sixties increased the need for reporters.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

During the nineteen sixties, he performed his exciting show almost non-stop in city after city in the United States and in other countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

But in the nineteen sixties, the expression rolling stone became famous in the world of rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

In the eighteen sixties, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers won a battle on Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In the nineteen sixties there were many cases in an area then called Buruli County in Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

America's civil war in the eighteen sixties did not have the full support of the people.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

They knew each other from their college days in the Boston,Massachusetts, area in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

During the nineteen sixties, medical researchers discovered changes in the brains of people with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

After the Civil War in the eighteen sixties, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the fourteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.09.15