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Movement and the Sixties

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ISBN-10: 0195074092

ISBN-13: 9780195074093

Edition: 1995

Authors: Terry H. Anderson

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It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Black Power, the Chicago Convention, hippies, Brown Power, and Women's Liberation--The Movement--in an era that became known as The Sixties. Why did millions of Americans become activists; why did they take to the streets? These are questions Terry Anderson explores in The Movement and The Sixties, a searching history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans and that called into question…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.64" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Terry AndersonTerry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, has taught in Malaysia and Japan. He was a Fulbright professor in China and the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin. He is the author of numerous articles on the 1960s and the Vietnam War, co-author of A Flying Tiger's Diary and author of United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947; The Movement and the Sixties; and The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. His other most recent book is Bush's Wars, forthcoming 2011.

For Rose
Acknowledgments
Preface: The movement and the Sixties
Introduction The Spawning Ground: Cold War Culture
The First Wave: The Surge, 1960 to 1968
The Struggle
The Movement and the Sixties Generation
Days of Decision
1968: Rip Tides
The Second Wave: The Crest, 1968 to the Early 1970s
Counterculture
Power and Liberation
The Movement Toward a New America
Legacies: The Sea Change
A Note on Sources and Notes
Index