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General

• 60s timeline from PBS click on 'launch'
• The Sixties: The Times They Are a-Changin' from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Highlights the upheaval and change of 1963 and 1968
• A Trip Through the Sixties
  • How it all began
  • The Anti-War movement
  • The Black Power movement
  • The Civil Rights movement
  • Women's Liberation and Feminism

Entertainment & Movies

• Film History of the 1960s
• 1960s Classic TV shows

Fashion, Art & Lifestyle

• Hippy Fashions and Lifestyles
• 60s Fashion (the Peoples history)
• Pop Art, Oxford Art Online
• Pop Art (wikipedia)
• Examples of many pop artists (click on title of work to see enlarged picture)
• Andy Warhol, Oxford Art Online
• Peter Max, Pop Artist (careful if printing to leave out the 100 comments)
• At Home in the 1960s
• Around Town in the 1960s

Music

• Woodstock(1969)
• Motown Sound, Wikipedia
• Stax Records - about, legacy, history, artists
• Music of the 60s (People's history)
• 1960s Music

Politics

Presidents

• John F. Kennedy Becomes The 35th President of the United States
• LBJ, events from 1964 - 1969

Vietnam

• Overview of the Vietnam War
• Revisiting the Black Experience in Vietnam
• LBJ and milestones of the war

Civil Rights

• African American Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Seattle Times
• Black Panthers
  

Original (or primary) Documents

• October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program
• Rules of the Black Panther Party
• Viet Nam Veterans against the War, John Kerry, April 23, 1971
• Young Lords Party 13-Point Program and Platform (Puerto Rican liberation)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founding Statement
• SNCC Position Paper: On Vietnam
• SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement (Nov. 1964) A document concerning gender issues within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. This reflects women’s concerns spoken all around the country.
• Powerful Days in Black and White - photos of the civil rights struggle by photojournalist Charles Moore

Technology

• Technology Overview, Wikipedia
• Greatest Space Events of the 20th Century: The 60s Space technology
• Space Race and the Cold War
• Science and Technology Overview, encyclopedia.com

Questions

• What was the state of this category in the 1960s?
• What major changes took place in this category during this time period?
• Who were the major players or played a key role in making changes in this category?
• How have these changes made an impact on society today?

This page created by Katie Sasser, Summer 2009