The 1968 Project
The 1968 Project

Author: Brad Zellar

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873518420

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Illuminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.

The 1968 Project
The 1968 Project

Author: Gregory Seltzer

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781983035647

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The 1968 Project is the story of how the chaotic and deadly historical events of 1968 influenced the music released in 1968. The Tet Offensive in January, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June, deadly riots at The Democratic National Convention in Chicago in October and, ultimately, the election of Richard M. Nixon in November. These events not only changed the course of American history - these events changed the course of music. The music of 1967 was bright, whimsical, colorful and drenched in psychedelic excess. The music of 1968 was dark, loud, serious and raw. What happened? The 1968 Project threads a narrative through a collage of chaos, arriving at a musical consequence.The 1968 Project is a quick and easy read, as each of the twelve chapters is a month in 1968, chronicling both the historical events and the music released in each month. A must read for fans of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Miles Davis, The Byrds, The Doors and Van Morrison.

Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights
Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights

Author: Sidney Fine

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780814328750

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Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers.

A Time to Stir
A Time to Stir

Author: Paul Cronin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 0231544332

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For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.