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And the crooked places made straight : the struggle for social change in the 1960s /

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David Chalmers' widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a widening challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing and privacy. He examines the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chalmers, David Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Edition:2nd ed., updated.
Series:American moment.
Subjects:
United States > History > 1961-1969.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.
Social change > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Coming out of the 1950s
  • 2. Marching in the streets
  • 3. Through the halls of government
  • 4. Poverty and progress
  • 5. Revolt on the campus
  • 6. The counterculture
  • 7. President's war, media war
  • 8. The antiwar movement
  • 9. The end of optimism
  • 10. Toward the liberation of women
  • 11. Legacies and continuities.