1960s

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1950s 1960s 1970s

Still fiercely attacked by the political right, the Sixties were the decade that fundamentally changed American society and politics. Bold and unexpected popular challenges to anti-communist authoritarianism in America cracked the post-war ideological hegemony of main street conservativism.

Timeline

• 1960
• 1961
• 1962
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965
• 1966
• 1967
• 1968
• 1969

Major events

• Civil rights
• Vietnam War
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Yippie

Further reading

• Tariq Ali. 2005. Street Fighting Years. Verso. ISBN 1844670295.
• martin Booth. 2003. Cannabis: A History. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0312322208.
• John Birmingham, ed. 1970. Your Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground. Bantam.
• Free. 1968 'Revolution for the Hell of It. Pocket Books.
• Norman Mailer. 1967. Armies of the Night. Plume. ISBN 0452272793.
• Kirkpatrick Sale. 1973. SDS. Vintage.