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(0)James T Patterson
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English
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In this book the author argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism. 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as "The Sixties," when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year,...
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English
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On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others considered the greatest civil rights speech of his career. Proudly, Johnson hailed the new freedoms granted to African Americans due to the newly passed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act but noted that "freedom is not enough." The next stage of the movement would be to secure racial equality "as a fact and a result."
The speech was drafted by an assistant secretary of...
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Oxford history of the United States volume 10
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xviii, 829 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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xiii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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A concise assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, weaving together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era's many memorable figures--most notably, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton--and explore the "culture wars" where liberals and conservatives appeared to cut the country in two. Patterson describes how, when the Cold War finally ended, Americans...