| Contents |
The movement begins -- The impact of the anti-hero, high and low -- The revolt of the young -- Striving for the beloved community -- Contending with the Kennedy administration -- Mounting frustration in the civil rights camp: Martin, Malcolm, and Mississippi freedom summer -- Anger rising and the radicalization of movement activists -- Martin, Malcolm, and Bob -- Envisioning participatory democracy -- Early opposition to war in Southeast Asia -- Teach-ins, naming that system, and a new SDS -- The new wave -- Resistance -- The American counterculture -- Marching toward the Pentagon -- Consciousness raising -- Season of the witch -- The fading of the new politics -- Counterrevolution and revolution -- Liberation -- Brown power, red power, yellow power -- People's power of a different cast -- The waning of the movement but the fight for empowerment continued -- The movement: a very brief retrospective. |
| Abstract |
"Throughout the Long Sixties, which spanned much of the conservative 1950s and continued into the 1970s, progressive activists sought to change American policy both foreign and domestic. Beginning with a civil rights crusade that later expanded to a campaign against the Vietnam War, the movement eventually splintered into a series of focuses: racial, ethnic, demographic, political, cultural, gender-based and environmental. This work details activists' determined efforts to ensure basic rights through fostering widespread civic engagement. Chapters demonstrate how the various campaigns within the movement were all successful to some extent, but none brought about the total revolution that many activists desired. Nonetheless, they contributed to a more open, egalitarian, participatory and emancipated nation that is still being shaped today."-- Provided by publisher. |
