Although Dylan's move away from acoustic folk music served to outrage and alienate much of his original fanbase, his new folk rock sound gained him legions of new fans during the mid-1960s.

The Jim Crow period, which started when segregation rules, laws and customs surfaced after Reconstruction era ended in the 1870s, existed until the mid-1960s when the struggle for civil rights in the United States gained national attention.

In the mid-1960s Kaman diversified outside of the aerospace industry, using the expertise Kaman had gained in composite materials and the end of the need for skilled woodworkers to craft wooden rotor blades.

Precise estimates vary, but through the mid-1960s workers ' families gained an average of one-third of the admission slots, peasants a mere 10 percent, and " others " nearly 60 percent.

The Park Hill Apartments, a privately-owned but federally-subsidized low-income housing complex on Vanderbilt Avenue, and also on Park Hill Avenue, became the site of steadily increasing crime and drug abuse beginning in the mid-1960s ; by the late 1980s it had gained the nickname of " Crack Hill " due to the many arrests for possession and / or sale of crack cocaine that were taking place in and around the development and the adjacent Fox Hills Apartments to the south.

Most blacks were disfranchised until after the mid-1960s, when the civil rights movement gained passage of federal legislation to enforce integration and voting rights.

In the mid-1960s, Russell Hiatt contacted Howard McNear and gained his written permission to use his likeness on T-Shirts and other items for an unlimited amount of time.

Another example of this kind is the so-called " localized induction approximation " ( LIA ) for three-dimensional vortex filament motion, which gained favor in the mid-1960s through the work of Arms, Hama, Betchov and others, but turns out to date from the early years of the 20th century in the work of Da Rios, a gifted student of the noted Italian mathematician T. Levi-Civita.

By the mid-1960s, Withers gained fame again as " Josephine the Plumber ," a character in a long-running and popular series of television commercials for Comet cleanser, and the veteran TV-ad pitchwoman's beloved character lasted into the 1970s, and even further in the ' 80s when her niece, JoAnn or Jo, would show her customers a picture of her Aunt Josephine.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy ( and Davie ) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.

Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics.

TPF evolved from the Airlines Control Program ( ACP ), a free package developed in the mid-1960s by IBM in association with major North American and European airlines.

Seen by an estimated 73 million viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s " British Invasion " of American popular music.

The American folk music revival became a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s with the initial success of the Weavers who popularized the genre.

The Negro American League of 1951 is considered the last major league season and the last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated amusingly rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to 1980s.

Sons of American fathers and British mothers ( their fathers being military personnel stationed at the United States Air Force base at RAF West Ruislip, London ), all three attended London Central High School at Bushey Hall, about 16 miles Northwest of London in the mid-1960s, where they met while playing in two different bands.

The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band who became internationally successful in the mid-1960s.

The late 1950s through the mid-1960s was also the period of greatest variation in body styles, with pillared two-and four-door models marketed alongside hardtop ( no B-pillar ) four-door models ( e. g., American Motors ' Rambler Cross-Country wagons ).

The crystal clear harmony singing and liberal outlook that characterized American folk rock during the mid-1960s sprang directly from the music and philosophies of the " collegiate folk " movement.

Only the Beach Boys were able to sustain popularity into the mid-1960s, producing a string of hit singles and albums including Pet Sounds in 1966, which made them the only American rock or pop group that arguably could rival the Beatles.

In the mid-1960s, TSR-2 was ignominiously scrapped in favour of the American F-111 – which had swing wings based on Wallis's work which the Americans had received – though this order was also subsequently cancelled.

While the Sledge-O-Matic act is an example of physical prop comedy, the act itself ( and even its name ) is a parody of ads for the Ronco Veg-O-Matic, a kitchen appliance that was heavily advertised on American television from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.

The number of sanctioned bowling alleys in the U. S. peaked at about 12, 000 in the mid-1960s, while membership in the American Bowling Congress also peaked at just under 4. 6 million male bowlers.

Erma Louise Bombeck, née Fiste ( February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996 ) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s.

Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound.

Throughout the mid-1960s, the Twisted Wheel became the focus of Manchester ’ s emerging mod scene, with a music policy that reflected Eagle ’ s eclectic tastes in soul and jazz, and featuring live performances by British beat musicians and American R & B stars.

Many mid-1960s American radicals came from small cities in the Midwest and Southwest, as did Satin: he grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota, and Wichita Falls, Texas.

In the mid-1960s, the American Football League ( AFL ), which had formed to compete against the NFL, put a new franchise in Cincinnati.

He became involved in campaigns for civil rights and open housing integration, working and organizing in the early and mid-1960s with the Chicago branch of the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee along with Kale Williams, civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, and others.

The Sonics are an American garage rock band from Tacoma, Washington, originating from the early and mid-1960s.

With a career spanning the mid-1960s to recent years, American band leader Alice Cooper refined shock rock, with expensive, upscale illusionary, graphic stunts, such as feigning decapitation with the use of elaborate special effects.

During the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, they were widely used and very popular, though the spinning reel has since eclipsed them in popularity in North America.

In the 1940s and 50s, artists like Cesar Concepción and Mon Rivera made plena slicker and had some hits internationally, but the music's popularity sunk drastically by the mid-1960s.

Surf rock's popularity ended in the mid-1960s with the coming of psychedelic music, however bands like Papa Doo Run Run have continued to perform and tour for the last 40 years.

Murray the K reached his peak of popularity in the mid-1960s when, as the top-rated radio host in New York City, he became an early and ardent supporter and friend of The Beatles.

In a 1999 article recalling the Joy Boys at the height of their popularity in the mid-1960s, The Washington Post said they " dominated Washington, providing entertainment, companionship, and community to a city on the verge of powerful change ".

It was at its peak of popularity when the television show World of Sport was launched in the mid-1960s, making household names out of Mick McManus, Count Bartelli, Giant Haystacks, Jackie Pallo, Big Daddy, Steve Veidor, and Kendo Nagasaki.

It began to be marketed as the Nehru jacket in the West in the mid-1960s ; it was briefly popular there in the late 1960s and early 1970s, its popularity spurred by growing awareness of foreign cultures, by the minimalism of the Mod lifestyle, and, in particular, by the Monkees and the Beatles, who popularized the garment.

The popularity of the original Star Trek show in the mid-1960s generated in the 1970s a wide variety of games known as " Star Trek " or simply " Trek ", but that are otherwise unrelated to the games discussed above.

The Marvelettes were an all-girl group who achieved popularity in the early to mid-1960s.

As rockabilly declined in popularity in the mid-1960s, she moved to a successful career in mainstream country music with a string of hits between 1966 and 1973, including " Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine ", " A Woman Lives for Love " and " Fancy Satin Pillows ".

Dick and Dee Dee ( or Dick and Deedee ) is an American singer-songwriter duo that reached popularity in the early to mid-1960s.

However, CBS telecast few programs in color, either locally or on the network, until the mid-1960s when color receivers began to grow in popularity.

King Leonardo, despite its earlier episodes repackaged for syndication as The King and Odie during the mid-1960s, never attained the popularity of Total Television's other series, Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo, and is hardly ever aired on television today.

The song received renewed popularity in 1974, when country singer Charlie Rich released a cover version he had recorded during the mid-1960s.

At the beginning of the 1970s, publishers moved away from the super-hero stories that enjoyed mass-market popularity in the mid-1960s ; DC cancelled most of its super-hero titles other than those starring Superman and Batman, while Marvel cancelled weaker-selling titles such as Dr.