Presents biographical profiles of twenty-six significant activists, politicians, authors, musicians, artists, and other figures of the 1960s, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan, and Andy Warhol.
Collects twenty primary sources from 1960s America that provide firsthand perspectives on the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, feminism, radical groups such as the Yippies, and the power of television, and includes a time line and a glossary.
Presents articles on such aspects of 1960s America as the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, feminism, the sexual revolution, counterculture, religion, sports, and entertainment, and includes a time line and a glossary.
