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Sixties.net Sixties.net: Pop culture, music, and snippets of history. Includes discussion forum and chat. (1960s) http://www.sixties.net/ Sixties Psychedelic Pop Posters Sixties Psychedelic Pop Posters: Numerous images of concert posters. Also, some short pieces on the sixties in London: Carnaby Street and nightlife. (1960s) http://www.nicke.abelgratis.com/ Freedom Archives Freedom Archives: Organization based in San Francisco, USA, restores and archives audiotapes from the late-60s to the mid-90s that chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements. (1960s) http://www.freedomarchives.org/ Sixties.com Sixties.com: The Haight-Ashbury scene; people, music, art, events; lots of photographs. (1960s) http://www.sixties.com/ I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Text and audio of King's speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. (1960s) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm Greg Knight's Patio Culture Greg Knight's Patio Culture: Discussion of suburbia and American suburban culture in the 1960s. (1960s) http://home.texoma.net/~kgreg/ Digger Archives Digger Archives: The famed San Francisco anarchist/street theatre group presents its history and lives on. (1960s) http://www.diggers.org/ The Living Room Candidate: 1960 Election The Living Room Candidate: 1960 Election: The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials for John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. (1960s) http://www.ammi.org/cgi-bin/video/years.cgi?1960 1968 Revisited 1968 Revisited: Items and commentary from the New York University Archives; timeline relates events from 1965 to 1971. (1960s) http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/arch/Homepg/Index.html BBHQ: The Sixties Section BBHQ: The Sixties Section: The stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation. (1960s) http://www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm Chicago '68 Chicago '68: A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (1960s) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/ 1960s Flashback 1960s Flashback: Listings of top U.S. sports teams, books, movies, and TV shows during the 1960s. (1960s) http://www.1960sflashback.com/ The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968: Students at South Kingstown High School, Rhode Island, interviewed people about their experiences of the 1960s. (1960s) http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/ The Living Room Candidate: 1964 Election The Living Room Candidate: 1964 Election: The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials for Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. (1960s) http://www.ammi.org/cgi-bin/video/years.cgi?1964 LBJ's Telephone Conversations LBJ's Telephone Conversations: Listen to audio files of some of President Johnson's telephone conversations; from the LBJ Library. (1960s) http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/Dictabelt.hom/content.asp 1960s British Pop Culture 1960s British Pop Culture: Comprehensive coverage of the music, films, TV, images, people, events, and trivia of Britain during this decade. (1960s) http://home.clara.net/digger/sixties/ The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change: Broad overview of 60s history and culture, illustrated by numerous pieces from the University of Virginia Library Special Collections. (1960s) http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/ Cielodrive.com Cielodrive.com: Extensive, well-illustrated site dealing with the 1969 murder spree of Charles Manson and Family. (1960s) http://www.cielodrive.com Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing - 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing - 1963: History and tribute to the four girls who died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. (1960s) http://useekufind.com/peace/ SNCC 1960-1966 SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee . (1960s) http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/ SDS: Rebels with a Cause SDS: Rebels with a Cause: Site for a documentary film about Students for a Democratic Society also has historical information. (1960s) http://www.sdsrebels.com/ The Greensboro Sit-ins The Greensboro Sit-ins: The sit-ins in Greensboro in February 1960 began a new chapter in the civil rights movement. This site provides an overview and photographs. (1960s) http://www.sitins.com/ Prague Spring 1968 Prague Spring 1968: ThinkQuest site providing background on Czechoslovakin democratization, the invasion by the Soviet Union, and the aftermath. Includes related documents, eyewitness accounts, and biographies of key figures. (1960s) http://library.thinkquest.org/C001155 Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collections Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collections: Online archive of documents and transcriptions from the movement that began in the late '60s. (1960s) http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/wlm/ John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address: Text of JFK's inaugural address--January 20, 1961. (1960s) http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/national/speeches/inau3.html The Living Room Candidate: 1968 Election The Living Room Candidate: 1968 Election: The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials for Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace. (1960s) http://www.ammi.org/cgi-bin/video/years.cgi?1968 The Sixties Project The Sixties Project: Literature, essays, bibliographies, personal narratives, and graphic arts. (1960s) http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/ Free Speech Movement Archives Free Speech Movement Archives: Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley. (1960s) http://www.fsm-a.org/ Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties: Online exhibit of items from the Alternative Press Collection at the University of Connecticut Libraries. (1960s) http://www.lib.uconn.edu/~eembardo/voices/index.html