In 1969, the New Jersey lottery got its start and New Jersey native Buzz Aldrin (from Glen Ridge) landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong. In 1965, Mildred Barry Hughes was first woman elected to the New Jersey Senate. In 1963, snowboarding pioneer Tom Sims of Haddonfield created the “ski board,” an early version of the snowboard. In 1961, the first enclosed shopping mall in New jersey opened in Cherry Hill. Of course, there was creation, innovation and plenty of fun amidst the chaos. Just weeks later, New Jersey’s worst race riots broke out in Newark. and the Soviet Union, though no specific agreements were reached. In the midst of the Cold War, the Glassboro Summit Conference helped improve relations between the U.S. From June 23 to June 25, 1967, President Johnson met with Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey. In the following weeks, similar riots occurred in Paterson and Elizabeth dozens were injured and hundreds were arrested. On August 2, 1964, New Jersey experienced its first race riot, in Jersey City.

On March 6, 1962, a savage nor’easter hit the state – hundreds of residents were evacuated from the shore area.

This decade was a very tumultuous time in New Jersey’s history, as you’ll see in some fo the photos below. Just like the rest of the country, 1960s New Jersey faced its fair share of problems. Posted in New Jersey History by Kristen updated on These 14 Photos of New Jersey In The 1960s Are Mesmerizing

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