The Movement and The Sixties
ISBN13: 9780195104578ISBN10: 0195104579
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544 pages
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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 the very nature of "America" Drawing on interviews, "underground" manuscripts collected at campuses and archives throughout the nation, and many popular accounts, Anderson begins with Greensboro and reveals how one event built upon another and exploded into the kaleidoscope of activism by the early 1970s.
An illuminating national history, The Movement and The Sixties offers a compelling and fascinating account of a defining era that remains a significant part of our lives today.
Reviews
"Should be the standard for years to come."--Kirkus Reviews
"A marvelous tour de force."--Mary King, author of Freedom Song
"Anderson has done the nearly impossible, giving us historical and intellectual synthesis."--The Seattle Times
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544 pages; 32 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-510457-8ISBN10: 0-19-510457-9About the Author(s)
Terry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, and also has taught in Malaysia, Japan, and has received a Fulbright to China. He has written many articles on the 1960s and on the Vietnam War, and is the author of The United States, Great Britain and the Cold War, 1944-1947, and the co-author of A Flying Tiger's Diary (with fighter pilot Charles Bond, Jr.).
