"Takin' it to the streets" : a sixties reader /
Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets, public speeches and personal voices, the selections range from the Port Huron Statement and the NOW Bill of Rights to speeches by Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, to private letters from civil righ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015].
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. 'Keep on walkin', keep on talkin'' : civil rights to 1965
- ch. 2. 'My generation' : American politics, the student movement, and the New Left
- ch. 3. 'Say it loud, say it proud' : black nationalism and ethnic consciousness
- ch. 4. 'Hey, hey, LBJ' : Vietnam and the antiwar movement
- ch. 5. 'Eight miles high' : the counterculture
- ch. 6. 'Love it or leave it' : the conservative impulse in a radical age
- ch. 7. 'The whole world is watching' : 1968 ... and after
- ch. 8. 'She's leaving home' : the women's liberation movement
- ch. 9. 'When the music's over' : endings and beginnings
- ch. 10. "For what it's worth" : assessments and implications.