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History of the 1960s; USA and elsewhere.


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1. 1960s Flashback - Listings of top U.S. sports teams, books, movies, and TV shows during the 1960s.
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2. 1968 Revisited - Items and commentary from the New York University Archives; timeline relates events from 1965 to 1971.
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3. Chicago '68 - A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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4. Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collections - Online archive of documents and transcriptions from the movement that began in the late '60s.
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5. Free Speech Movement Archives - Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley.
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6. Free Speech Movement Digital Archive - Information on the FSM digital archive from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
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7. Freedom Archives - Organization based in San Francisco, USA, restores and archives audiotapes from the late-60s to the mid-90s that chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
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8. In the Memory of Four Little Girls - History and tribute to the four girls who died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.
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9. John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - Text, audio, and video of JFK's inaugural address--January 20, 1961.
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10. LBJ's Telephone Conversations - Listen to audio files of some of President Johnson's telephone conversations; from the LBJ Library.
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11. Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - Text and audio of King's speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
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12. New York 1964 World's Fair - 1964 World's Fair history site with illustrated articles and clickable maps with photos and commentary about 140 attractions.
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13. New York World's Fair 1964-65 - Although this site is poorly organized, it has some excellent photographs and information about the "Space Age" fair.
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14. SDS: Rebels with a Cause - Site for a documentary film about Students for a Democratic Society also has historical information.
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15. Sixties City - Mostly pop culture look at the '60s from a UK perspective.
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16. Sixties Net - Pop culture, music, and snippets of history. Includes discussion forum and chat.
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17. SNCC 1960-1966 - Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee .
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18. The Groovy Times - Numerous images of concert posters. Also, some short pieces on the sixties in London: Carnaby Street and nightlife.
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19. The Guardian: 1960s section of a millennium project - Year-by-year articles on the highlights of the decade.
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20. The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials from presidential elections including 1960, 1964, and 1968.
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21. The Sixties Project - Literature, essays, bibliographies, personal narratives, and graphic arts.
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22. The Sixties Section - What Happened in the Sixties? - Stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation.
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23. The Story of the Manson Family and their Victims - Extensive, well-illustrated site dealing with the 1969 murder spree.
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24. The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno - An article by Peter Dale Scott.
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25. The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 - Students at South Kingstown High School, Rhode Island, interviewed people about their experiences of the 1960s.
26. Digger Archives - The famed San Francisco anarchist/street theatre group presents its history and lives on.
27. Greg Knight's Patio Culture - Discussion of American suburban culture in the 1960s.
28. Prague Spring 1968 - ThinkQuest site providing background on Czechoslovakian democratization, the invasion by the Soviet Union, and the aftermath.
29. The Greensboro Sit-ins - Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - A new chapter in the civil rights movement with an overview and photographs.
30. The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change - Broad overview of 60s history and culture, illustrated by numerous pieces from the University of Virginia Library Special Collections.
31. Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties NEW! - Online exhibit of items from the Alternative Press Collection at the University of Connecticut Libraries.
32. Where Were You on July 20, 1969? - Collaborative journal of memories from the day of the first manned moon landing.

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