Sixties Experience

Edward P. Morgan is Professor of Government at Lehigh University.

• Foreword -- Howard Zinn Preface Chronology, 1960-1970 Part I: Introduction 1. The Sixties Experience Explaining the Sixties: A Movement Perspective * Hard Lessons Part II: Movements of the Sixties 2. The Struggle for Racial Justice: The Sixties Catalyst The Beginnings, 1953-1960 * Gaining Momentum, 1960-1961 * The Growing Schism: Rights versus Power * Black Power * Legacies of the Civil Rights Struggle 3. Political Education: The New Student Left and the Campus Revolt The New Student Left * The Campus Revolt 4. The Vietnam War: A Nation Divided, A Movement Radicalized The Antiwar Movement * The Evolution of American Policy and Opposition to It * Nixon's War and the End of the Sixties * An Antiwar Legacy 5. Retreating Inward The Countercultural Revolution The Roots and Evolution of the Counterculture * Hallmarks of the Counterculture * The Counterculture as Transition Part III: Since the Sixties: Lessons and Legacies 6. New Beginnings: Feminism, Ecology, and a Revived Left Critique The Women's Movement * The Feminist Critique * The Ecology Movement * A Revived Left Critique 7. A New Awakening? Lessons and Legacies of the Sixties The "Right Turn" and Sixties-Bashing * Toward a Third Path: A Global Pro-Democracy Movement * The Sixties Democratic Vision Revisited Notes Index

"A well-argued, leftist intellectual perspective of the era, informed by compassion and unafraid to articulate its vision.... The Sixties Experience [is] worthwhile and...compelling."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "An extraordinary achievement...[Morgan's] descriptions are rich and full. His analysis is provocative and judicious. He understands the contradictions within each movement, but refuses to let the polarities batter themselves into meaninglessness. He does us all a great service, by making the bold leap from that time to our own, extricating from that complex history a core of meaning for the future of our country."-Howard P. Zinn, from the Foreword