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Introduction: The Decade of Turmoil

In the Beginning

Rumblings of the Counterculture

Political Awakenings

Revolutionary Musical Changes

Escalating the War in Vietnam

Resisting the War

Make Love, Not War

1968: The Year of Chaos

Radicalized Americans

The Dream Is Over

Counterculture to Mainstream Culture

Chapter 1 Seeds of the Counterculture: The Early 60s

Chapter Preface

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley

White Students Join Fight for Black Rights

Feminist Stirrings in the Early Sixties

The Antiwar Movement Is Born

Chapter 2 War Protesters

Chapter Preface

"Vietnam Day" Protest in Berkeley

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Refusing to Serve

Violence at the Democratic Convention

Chapter 3 Hippies and the Psychedelic Revolution

Chapter Preface

The Birth of the Hippie Culture

Spreading the Psychedelic Message

The Diggers Feed the People

From City Protesters to Country Communes

Chapter 4 Guerrilla Politics

Chapter Preface

The Birth of the Yippies

Abbie Hoffman Raises the Pentagon

Rock and Roll for Peace

Chapter 5 Black Power

Chapter Preface

Malcolm X and Black Power

Black Power and Law and Order

Armed March on the California Statehouse

How to Run a Revolution

Hispanic Revolutionaries

Chronology

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The Sixties Research Article from History Firsthand

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