1960s counterculture
Subtitle: documents decoded
By: Jim Willis
Series: Documents decoded series; Documents decoded
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781610695220; 9781610695237
Subjects: Sources; Protest movements; Civilization; Social conditions; Social movements; Counterculture; History
Description: An era that changed America forever is analyzed through the words of those who led, participated in, and opposed the protest movements that made the 1960s a signature epoch in U.S. culture.

Contains primary source documents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : seeds of the 1960s protest movement -- -- 1.; title: Raised voices : the Berkley free speech movement --; title: Freedom of speech  -- The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ratified December 15, 1791; title: "A spectre is haunting the university"  -- leaflet from the FSM Steering Committee, December 1964; title: "The bodies upon the gears"  -- Mario Savio's speech on the Sproul Hall steps, UC-Berkeley, December 2, 1964; title: The function of the University in time of crisis  -- Noam Chomsky's speech on the role of the University, 1969 -- 2.; title: Flowers in their hair : voices of the hippie movement --; title: "The class structure of Hippie society"  -- Dr. Sherry Cavan's article on the economics of Hippie society, October 1972; title: "The gathering of the tribes"  -- promotional article in the San Francisco Oracle, January 1967; title: "Trip without a ticket"  -- The Digger Papers, August 1968; title: "The community of the tribe"  -- Tom Law's article on Hippie culture, 1967; title: "Marxism and nonviolence" conversation with Isaac Deutscher -- -- 3.; title: Hell no, we won't go : protesting the Vietnam War --; title: The Port Huron Statement  -- Students for a Democratic Society's manifesto, June 1962; title: "The incredible war"  -- Paul Potter's essay on the Vietnam War, April 7, 1965; title: "The great silent majority"  -- President Nixon's Address to the American People, November 3, 1969 -- 4.; title: We shall overcome : protesting racial discrimination --; title: "A moral crisis  -- John F. Kennedy's Address on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963; title: "We shall overcome"  -- Lyndon B. Johnson's Voting Rights Speech, March 15, 1965; title: "Black Power"  -- Stokely Carmichael's speech to the SNCC, October 29, 1966 -- 5.; title: I am a woman : protesting gender discrimination --; title: Equal rights for women  -- Shirley Chisholm's speech in the House of Representatives, May 21, 1969; title: Judge Carswell and the "sex plus" doctrine  -- Betty Friedan's testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee, January 29, 1970; title: "We won't be silent anymore"  -- Gloria Steinem's testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970; title: "Living the revolution"  -- Gloria Steinem's Commencement Speech at Vassar College, May 31, 1970 -- 6.; title: Embracing differences : protesting GLBT discrimination --; title: "Under conditions other than honorable"  -- Fannie Mae Clackum v. United States, January 20, 1960; title: "Raid on the Black Cat Bar"  -- press release from the Tavern Guild of Southern California, January 5, 1967; title: "Unfitness to teach"?  -- Morrison v. State Board of Education, November 20, 1969; title: "Full moon over the Stonewall"  -- Howard Smith's article in the Village Voice, July 2, 1969 -- 7.; title: A voice from the past, demanding to be heard : the Native American --; title: "On the art of stealing human rights"  -- Gerry Gambill's speech at a conference on human rights, August 1968; title: "The meaning of AIM"  -- Birgil Kills Straight's letter to the editor, 1973; title: The NARP Eight-Point Program  -- article from the Native Alliance for Red Power Newsletter, June-July 1969; title: Establishing the National Council on Indian Opportunity  -- Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11399, March 6, 1968; title: "Eighteen thousand pages"  -- a guide to the microfilm edition of the FBI files on the American Indian Movement, 1986 -- 8.; title: The fight in the fields : Latino protests of the era --; title: "Viva la causa"  -- statement of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at a rally of the United Farm Workers, March 10, 1968; title: "Men are not angels"  -- Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano, April 4, 1969; title: "The boycott is our major weapon"  -- Dolores Huerta's statement to Congress, July 15, 1969; title: Timeline of key events in the Protest Era of the 1960s.