Anderson, Terry H.

Offers a history of affirmative action in the United States, discussing how it has impacted American culture, education, and labor, why people's views of affirmative action differ, how American companies respond to affirmative action, and other related topics.

Provides an incisive and balanced account of the history of affirmative action, beginning with its roots in African-American demands for employment in the defense industry to the demise and revision of affirmative action during the Clinton years.

Provides a chronological overview of the political, social, and cultural events and issues of the 1960s, and discusses how they shaped and influenced American history in the following decades.

A history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans and the decade of the sixties.

The history of social activism in the 1960s and the early 1970s including the Chicago Democratic Convention, the Freedom Rides, and the Wounded Knee demonstration.