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The Sixties Project - Literature, essays, bibliographies, personal narratives, and graphic arts.
The Sixties Section - What Happened in the Sixties? - Stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation.
Chicago '68 - A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The Groovy Times - Numerous images of concert posters. Also, some short pieces on the sixties in London: Carnaby Street and nightlife.
1960s Flashback - Listings of top U.S. sports teams, books, movies, and TV shows during the 1960s.
The Greensboro Sit-ins - Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - A new chapter in the civil rights movement with an overview and photographs.
SNCC 1960-1966 - Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee .
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.
SDS: Rebels with a Cause - Site for a documentary film about Students for a Democratic Society also has historical information.
LBJ's Telephone Conversations - Listen to audio files of some of President Johnson's telephone conversations; from the LBJ Library.
1968 Revisited - Items and commentary from the New York University Archives; timeline relates events from 1965 to 1971.
Free Speech Movement Archives - Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley.
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.
Sixties Net - Pop culture, music, and snippets of history. Includes discussion forum and chat.
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.
The Story of the Manson Family and their Victims - Extensive, well-illustrated site dealing with the 1969 murder spree.
In the Memory of Four Little Girls - History and tribute to the four girls who died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - Text and audio of King's speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials from presidential elections including 1960, 1964, and 1968.
The Guardian: 1960s section of a millennium project - Year-by-year articles on the highlights of the decade.
The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno - An article by Peter Dale Scott.
Where Were You on July 20, 1969? - Collaborative journal of memories from the day of the first manned moon landing.
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive - Information on the FSM digital archive from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
Sixties City - Mostly pop culture look at the '60s from a UK perspective.
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - Text, audio, and video of JFK's inaugural address delivered on January 20, 1961.
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.
Prague Spring 1968 - ThinkQuest site providing background on Czechoslovakian democratization, the invasion by the Soviet Union, and the aftermath.
New York World's Fair 1964-65 - Although this site is poorly organized, it has some excellent photographs and information about the "Space Age" fair.
Greg Knight's Patio Culture - Discussion of American suburban culture in the 1960s.
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.
New York 1964 World's Fair - 1964 World's Fair history site with illustrated articles and clickable maps with photos and commentary about 140 attractions.
Counterculture Timeline 1960-75 - Extensive, though sometimes inaccurate, timeline of historical and cultural events. (Excellent place to start, but check your facts.)
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