The sixties papers: documents of a rebellious decade

The turbulent decade of the 1960s has been analyzed and interpreted by numerous journalists and scholars. The former movement leaders, Judith Albert and Stewart Albert "tell it like it was", presenting material generated by the social protest movements. Challenging the prevailing view that the decade failed to produce influential enduring ideas, the authors demonstrate that the new left and counterculture produced a coherent body of critical thought about the nature of American society.

Considering the 1960s. Finding the 1960s in the 1950s -- Sit-ins, SNCC, and the Emergence of political rebellion -- The rise of the new left -- The mass culture of rebellion -- 1968 : the movement -- 1969 : "the revolution" -- 1970 : the women's rebellion -- The decade ends -- Prophetic visions : formative ideas. HOWL / Allen Ginsberg -- The causes of World War III / C. Wright Mills -- Letter to the new left / C. Wright Mills -- The white Negro / Norman Mailer -- The civil rights and Black power movements. Pilgrimage to nonviolence / Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- SNCC : founding statement -- SNCC position paper : women in the movement -- SNCC position paper: Vietnam -- SNCC speaks for itself -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Sex and caste : a kind of memo / Casey Hayden and Mary King -- What we want / Stokely Carmichael -- Rebellion in Newark / Tom Hayden -- Die nigger die! / H. Rap Brown -- The Black Panther Party : platform and program -- For a woman / Erika Huggins -- Revolutionary suicide : the way of liberation / Huey P. Newton -- SDS. The Port Huron statement -- The triple revolution -- One dimensional man / Herbert Marcuse -- Speech to the April 17, 1965 march on …