"Past as prologue" : the 1950s as an introduction to the 1960s. "Keep on walkin', keep on talkin'" : civil rights, 1865. "My generation" : the student movement and the New Left. Beginnings
Community organizing
The free speech movement
New Left thinking at mid-decade. "Say it loud, say it proud" : Black nationalism and ethnic consciousness. Black nationalism and Black pride
Latinos
Asian-Americans
American Indians. "Hey, hey, LBJ?" : Vietnam and the antiwar movement. Understanding the war
The antiwar movement
Resistance and antidraft activity
Experiences of war. "Eight miles high" : the counterculture. A literature of the counterculture
Rock around the clock
Hippies
Yippies
Communes. "Love it or leave it" : the backlash against the movements. Opposing the students
George Wallace
COINTELPRO
Counter-counterculture. "The whole world is watching" : 1968
and after. Campus explosions
The Democrats divide
The New Left splinters : the Weather Underground. "She's leaving home" : the women's liberation movement. Liberal feminism
Radical women
Our bodies, our sexuality
Race, ethnicity, and class : feminist issues. "When the music's over" : endings and beginnings. People's Park
Kent State and Jackson State
Gay liberation
Woodstock and Altamont
The environmental movement
The end of the decade.