| Title |
America dreaming : how youth changed America in the sixties / Laban Carrick Hill. |
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| Publication Info. |
New York : Little, Brown, 2007. |
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| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 165 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index. |
| Contents |
The fifties romper room : preschool for the boomer generation -- I wanna hold your hand : fueling idealism and its destruction -- Sitting at the counter : black college students lead the way to civil rights victories -- You say you want a revolution : the radical youth movement -- Feeling groovy : hippie culture and alternative lifestyles -- Burn, baby, burn : black nationalism and violent protest -- Our bodies, our politics : women taking control of their destiny -- Upside down flag : fighting for Native American rights -- Somos Latinos : empowering Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans -- Earth Day : the origins of the environmental movement -- Making a rainbow : a legacy of progress. |
| Summary |
Describes how the young Americans of the 1960s found creative ways to express their beliefs and views on political and social fronts that impacted and changed the course of history with regard to civil rights, women's rights, and other political issues. |
| Subject |
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Nineteen sixties -- Juvenile literature.
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Baby boom generation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
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Social change -- United States -- History.
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Nineteen sixties.
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Baby boom generation -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0316009040 : $19.99 |
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9780316009041 : $19.99 |
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| ISBN |
0316009040 : $19.99 |
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9780316009041 : $19.99 |
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