USA in the 1960s

General

PBS documentary on the 1960s

Bob Dylan, The Times they Are A-Changing Watch Bob Dylan perform the song on YouTube

Film: Mike Nichols, The Graduate (1967)

 

Worksheet

Civil Rights

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X 1964

Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" Watch Martin Luther King deliver his speech

Malcolm X, "Message to the Grass Roots" Watch a short section of the speech on YouTube Text

Worksheets

Pete Seeger, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" Worksheet

Black Panther Party Platform and Program Worksheet

Anti-War Movement

SNCCP Position Paper: On Vietnam

Worksheet

Anti -War March to the Pentagon  1967 YouTube

Tom Paxton, "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" Listen to Tom Paxton singing this song.

Phil Ochs, "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" Watch Phil Ochs perform the song on You Tube

Protest songs worksheet

 

Summer of Love and the Hippie Movement

Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"    and Someone to Love. Watch Jefferson Airplane perform on YouTube

PBS Summer of Love

Worksheet

Oracle magazine cover

The Women's Liberation Movement

From Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

From Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M. Society for cutting up men MANIFESTO, 1968

 

"Bra- burner" at the Miss America pageant 1968

The Miss America Pageant Protests of 1968 and No More Miss America

The Pill and the Sexual Revolution

The Pill and the Women's Liberation Movement

Worksheet

 

From Kennedy to Nixon

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address 1961  on  YouTube

Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech on Voting Rights 1965 on YouTube

Richard M. Nixon, Silent Majority Speech 1963  on YouTube

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