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Author Hill, Laban Carrick.

Title America dreaming : how youth changed America in the sixties / Laban Carrick Hill.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Quarto Shelves  Q 973.922 Hill    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description ix, 165 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Indexed In: VOYA 2007 NO. 6
Kirkus 10/01/2007
NYT Bk 11/11/2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index.
Contents The fifties romper room : preschool for the boomer generation -- I wanna hold your hand : fueling idealism and its destruction -- Sitting at the counter : black college students lead the way to civil rights victories -- You say you want a revolution : the radical youth movement -- Feeling groovy : hippie culture and alternative lifestyles -- Burn, baby, burn : black nationalism and violent protest -- Our bodies, our politics : women taking control of their destiny -- Upside down flag : fighting for Native American rights -- Somos Latinos : empowering Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans -- Earth Day : the origins of the environmental movement -- Making a rainbow : a legacy of progress.
Summary Describes how the young Americans of the 1960s found creative ways to express their beliefs and views on political and social fronts that impacted and changed the course of history with regard to civil rights, women's rights, and other political issues.
Study Program AR RL 9.8 10.0 PHS
Subject Social change -- United States -- History.
United States -- History -- 1961-1974.
Baby boom generation -- United States.
ISBN 9780316009041
0316009040
Standard No. IG# 9780316009041

 
    
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