| Contents |
Sixties timeline -- Introduction : Why read about the 1960s at the turn of the twenty-first century? -- The movement we helped to make / Julian Bond -- "Of this generation" : the New Left and the student movement / Wini Breines -- Vietnam War mythology and the rise of public cynicism / Cristian Appy, Alexander Bloom -- Running battle : Washington's war at home / Tom Wells -- Lyndon Johnson and the roots of contemporary conservatism / Tom Wicker -- Negroes no more : the emergence of black student activism / Karen K. Miller -- Everything seemed beautiful : a life in the counterculture / Barry Melton -- Politics as art, art as politics : the Freedom Singers, the Living Theatre, and public performance / Bradford Martin -- Sources of the second wave : the rebirth of feminism / Sara M. Evans -- Placing gay in the sixties / John D'Emilio. |
