Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Martin Luther King's jailing in Birmingham, Ala., which gave new respectability to the strategy of disobedience to unjust laws, 1963.
> The civil rights acts of 1964, 1965 and 1968, the most important legislative attacks on racial inequality since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
> In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court spells out the rights of criminal suspects in police custody, 1966.
> Florida's stay of execution for inmates on death row begins a t w o-year moratorium on capital punishment in the U.S., 1967.
> The opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent, 1969.