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The Sixties

"The Great Fear": Anticommunism and the Cold War


  • "The Atomic Cafe"
  • "Cold War" Special (CNN)
  • Cold War (Federation of American Scientists)
  • Cold War Hot Links
  • "Interpreting McCarthyism: A Bibliographical Essay" by Ellen Schrecker
  • The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
  • Music in the Fifties and the Origins of Rock and Roll


  • Alan Freed
  • Fifties Web Site
  • The History of Rock and Roll
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland)
  • Rock 'n Roll in the American Fifties
  • "Rock 'n Roll" (PBS)
  • SlowHandd's Musical Expedition
  • This Day in Rock and Roll History
  • The "Juvenile Delinquents" and the Beat Generation


  • Fifties Web Site
  • Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Allen Ginsberg Memorial
  • Allen Ginsberg Memorial Page
  • The Beat Cafe
  • The Beat Generation
  • The Beat Generation Catalog
  • Beat SuperNova
  • City Lights Bookstore (San Francisco)
  • Dharma Beat: A Jack Kerouac Newszine
  • North Beach Writers
  • Revolutionaries: Allen Ginsberg
  • Sounds of Jack Kerouac Reading (and Singing) His Prose

  • The Civil Rights Movement


  • African-American Holocaust
  • Civil Rights: A Status Report
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • "Eyes on the Prize" Viewer's Guide (Blackside)
  • Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
  • Images from The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
  • "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary
  • Malcolm X
  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. (Atlanta)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Timeline Page
  • Museum of African-American History (Detroit)
  • National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis)
  • Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
  • Voices of the Civil Rights Era (Webcorp)
  • The Vietnam Wars


  • "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" (1964)
  • The New Left and the Antiwar Movement


  • Emi's Online Antiwar Anthology
  • "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" (1967) by Dr. Benjamin Spock, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, Michael Ferber, and the Reverend William Sloane Coffin
  • "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam" (April 1967) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • "On the Arrogance of Power" (1966) by Sen. J. William Fulbright
  • "The Port Huron Statement" (1962) by Tom Hayden
  • Music in the Sixties


  • Back to the Sixties
  • The Women's Liberation Movement


  • "The Scum Manifesto" by Valerie Solanis
  • Push Here to Go Back Home