Research Catalog

Title

Sixties in America. Primary sources / Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast.

Author

Pendergast, Tom.

Publication

Detroit : U.X.L, [2005]

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Details

Additional Authors

Pendergast, Sara.

Description

xxxviii, 240, [12] pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

The Sixties in America Reference Library presents a broad overview of the turbulent 1960s, a decade that forever changed the American social, political and cultural landscape. The Sixties in America: Primary Sources includes excerpts from speeches, diary entries and other primary source materials, including John Kerry's statement on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet"; and Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique. -- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

U-X-L the sixties in America reference library

Uniform Title

U-X-L the sixties in America reference library.

Alternative Title

• 60s in America. Primary sources
• 1960s in America. Primary sources

Subject

• 1961-1969
• United States > History > 1961-1969 > Sources > Juvenile literature
• United States

Genre/Form

• History.
• Juvenile works.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

CHAPTER 1: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. Inaugural speech, January 14, 1963 / George C. Wallace -- Excerpt from "The basis of black power" / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Excerpt from "The ballot or the bullet" / Malcolm X -- Excerpt from "Where do we go from here?" / Martin Luther King Jr. CHAPTER 2: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES. Excerpt from "American women: the report of the President's Commission on the status of women" / Commission on the Status of Women -- Excerpt from "The feminine mystique" / Betty Friedan -- Complete text of "Bill of rights for women in 1968" / National Organization for Women -- Excerpt from "Sex and the single girl" / Helen Gurley Brown. CHAPTER 3. THE WAR IN VIETNAM. Excerpt from "Message to Congress, August 5, 1964" / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Excerpt from "House Joint Resolution 1145, August 7, 1964" / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Excerpt from "A policy of sustained reprisal" / McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara -- Excerpt from "Recommendations of additional deployments to Vietnam" / McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara. CHAPTER 4: THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT. Complete text of "Position paper on Vietnam" / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Excerpt from a statement of behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry. CHAPTER 5: "THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING": RADICALS ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT. Excerpt from "The Port Huron Statement" and complete text of "The Sharon Statement" / Students for a Democratic Society and Young Americans for Freedom -- Complete text of "The yippie manifesto" / The Yippies -- Excerpt from 1964 acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination / Barry Goldwater. CHAPTER 6: DEBATING THE POWER OF TELEVISION. Excerpt from an address given to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961 / Newton Monow -- Excerpt from "Understanding media: the extensions of man" / Marshall McLuhan.

Call Number

E841

ISBN

• 0787692484
• 9780787692483

LCCN

2004016602

OCLC

56109136

Author

Pendergast, Tom.

Title

Sixties in America. Primary sources / Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast.

Imprint

Detroit : U.X.L, [2005]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

U-X-L the sixties in America reference library

U-X-L the sixties in America reference library.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Table of contents

Chronological Term

1961-1969

Added Author

Pendergast, Sara.

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG E841 .P383 2005