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The Innocent 1960s: Politics in the Kennedy Years   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

Another Dream for America: the Conservative Vision   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

Sixties Counterculture: the Hippies and Beyond   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

Sports and the Changing Tides of American Culture in the 1960s   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

The Arts in 1960s America   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

The Enduring Legacy of the 1960s   The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 2 Essays About 1,297 pages (389,149 words) in 23 products

Hoffman, Abbie   Writer and activist Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) was best known for his anti-war protests as a leader of the Youth International Party in the 1960s. Abbie Hoffman was born November 30, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Brande... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 4 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 38 pages (11,346 words) in 6 products

Civil Rights       Our country is a hodgepodge  of minorities whom we still take for granted, leaving them on the other side of reality. In the essays "Custer Died for Your Sins," by Vine Deloria, Jr., "The Glass Half Empty," by Anna Q... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 11 Essays About 322 pages (96,526 words) in 16 products

Warhol, Andy   Andy Warhol (ca. 1927-1987) was a pioneer American pop artist and film maker. His paintings of Campbell soup cans and other mundane objects both piqued and delighted the art public and brought him fame. Andy Warhol liked to shroud himself ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 5 Essays, 11 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 115 pages (34,592 words) in 22 products

Goldwater, Barry   Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate five times between 1952 and 1980, leaving temporarily to run unsuccessfully for president in 1964. His outspoken conservatism gained him the label "Mr. Conservative... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 4 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 55 pages (16,338 words) in 6 products

Gordy Jr., Berry   Berry Gordy, Jr. (born 1929), founded Motown, the fledgling record company of 1959 that grew into the most successful African American enterprise in the United States and was responsible for a new sound that transformed popular music. Berr... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 3 Summaries About 19 pages (5,658 words) in 4 products

Friedan, Betty   Betty Friedan (born 1921) is a women's rights activist, author of The Feminine Mystique, and a founding member of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the National Women's Political Caucus. B... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 1 Essay, 1 Quotes About 54 pages (16,231 words) in 7 products

Dylan, Bob   Throughout a career that has seen the better part of three decades, Bob Dylan (born 1941) has been pop music's master poet and an ever-changing performer. In the early 1960s Bob Dylan was heralded as the spokesman for his generation, writi... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 2 Essays, 28 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 289 pages (86,631 words) in 36 products

Cronkite, Walter   Crohn's disease (pronounced krohnz) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It results in swelling of the intestinal tract. It may also restrict the function of the intestinal tract. The term inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) ref... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 35 pages (10,559 words) in 3 products

Huerta, Dolores   Dolores Huerta (born 1930) is a labor activist who worked with the late Cesar Chavez to organize and run the United Farm Workers. Cofounder and first vice president of the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta (sometimes referred to as Dolor... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 19 pages (5,793 words) in 3 products

The Antiwar Movement   Along with the civil rights movement, the movement to protest American involvement in the war in Vietnam provided some of the defining cultural experiences of the 1960s. From their origins in student protest in the first years of the 1960s... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 41 pages (12,373 words) in 3 products

The Antiwar Movement   Along with the civil rights movement, the movement to protest American involvement in the war in Vietnam provided some of the defining cultural experiences of the 1960s. From their origins in student protest in the first years of the 1960s... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 41 pages (12,373 words) in 3 products

The American Economy: Leading the World   What factors helped to promote America's huge industrial growth during the period from 1860-1900? After the Reconstruction Era, the United States was in desperate need of a change. The other world powers had already experienced a series ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 4 Essays About 129 pages (38,729 words) in 7 products

Feminism and the Sexual Revolution   The women's movement of the 1960s was actually a revival, often called the second wave, of an earlier movement for women's rights that resulted in women's universal suffrage, or voting rights throughout the country, wi... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 19 pages (5,683 words) in 2 products

Kelsey, Frances Oldham   Frances Oldham Kelsey became nationally famous in 1962 when she prevented the sedative drug thalidomide from entering the United States. Thalidomide was found to have caused birth defects in 10,000 European children in the late 1950s and e... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 14 pages (4,127 words) in 3 products

The Struggle for Civil Rights   Civil rights for blacks was not a new idea in the 1960s. African Americans had been struggling for racial justice since slavery was ended following the American Civil War (1861–65). While they had gained their independence and a few... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 32 pages (9,636 words) in 2 products

Grissom, Virgil "Gus"   1926-1967 American engineer and astronaut who was the second American in space during a 1961 suborbital Mercury test flight in the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, which sank in the Atlantic after splashdown (the capsule was recovered in 1999). ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 20 pages (5,845 words) in 3 products

Grand Dreams for a Better Society: Conflicting Visions of the 1960s by Creative Teaching Press   Solomon Fuller, the first black psychiatrist in the United States, played a key role in the development of psychiatry in the 1900s. Known for his research on dementia, Fuller helped make the United States the leader in psychiatry that it i... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 141 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 23 Essays About 6,020 pages (1,805,969 words) in 166 products

Decline or Revival? Changing Currents in the American Religious Experience by Creative Teaching Press   Solomon Fuller, the first black psychiatrist in the United States, played a key role in the development of psychiatry in the 1900s. Known for his research on dementia, Fuller helped make the United States the leader in psychiatry that it i... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 141 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 23 Essays About 6,020 pages (1,805,969 words) in 166 products

Kennedy, John F.   John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy.... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 6 Summaries, 5 Essays, 2 Quotes About 155 pages (46,576 words) in 14 products

Kesey, Ken   A writer who came of age on the West Coast during the late 1950s, Ken Kesey has been profoundly influenced by the Beats both in his life and in his work. Strictly speaking, he is not a Beat writer in his early books, although he admired Ja... Study Pack: 6 Biographies, 4 Summaries, 2 Essays, 26 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 485 pages (145,516 words) in 39 products

Debating the Power of Television   Television cemented its grip on American attention spans during the 1960s. The industry added channels and improved the quality of its color pictures. However, some Americans became increasingly critical of television programming in the de... Study Pack: 6 Summaries About 160 pages (48,063 words) in 6 products

The Triumph and Collapse of the Johnson Administration   As the thirty-sixth president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) created new programs in health, education, human rights, and conservation and attacked the crushing 20th-century problems of urban blight and poverty wit... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 5 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 120 pages (35,941 words) in 7 products

Johnson, Lyndon B.   As the thirty-sixth president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) created new programs in health, education, human rights, and conservation and attacked the crushing 20th-century problems of urban blight and poverty wit... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 5 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 120 pages (35,941 words) in 7 products

O'hair, Madalyn Murray   Madalyn Murry O'Hair (1919-1995) was a staunch atheist whose court cases brought down rulings from the Supreme Court that prayer is not to be required in public schools. Madalyn Murray O'Hair called herself "the most hated woman in America... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 24 pages (7,214 words) in 4 products

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   The Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born ca. 1911) came to the West as a missionary of traditional Indian thought in popular form and founded the Transcendental Meditation Movement, which reached its height of popularity in the 1960s an... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 22 pages (6,570 words) in 4 products

Malcolm X   Malcolm X (1925-1965), African American civil rights leader, was a major 20th-century spokesman for black nationalism. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebr. His father, a Baptist minister, was an outspoken foll... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 4 Summaries, 8 Essays, 13 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 223 pages (66,869 words) in 27 products

King Jr., Martin Luther   The African American minister and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. He was one of the most important black leaders of his era. Martin Luth... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 8 Summaries, 13 Essays, 5 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 414 pages (124,097 words) in 30 products

Ash, Mary Kay   Texas make-up tycoon Mary Kay (Wagner) Ash (born ca. 1916) parlayed her early training in direct sales into a multi-million-dollar, Dallas-based cosmetics firm. Although her choice of a cosmetics career was not unique, Mary Kay Ash proved ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 15 pages (4,429 words) in 4 products

Ali, Muhammad   Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay, 1942) was the only professional boxer to win the heavyweight championship three times. With his outspoken political and religious views he has provided leadership and an example for African American men and... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 4 Essays, 1 Quotes About 91 pages (27,189 words) in 10 products

"The Times They Are a Changin'": Radicals on the Left and Right   The United States in the 1960s was an immensely powerful and wealthy country. The dominant world power at the end of World War II (1939–45), the United States had developed the strongest military in the world during the 1950s. The m... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 65 pages (19,380 words) in 4 products

The War in Vietnam   THE NATURE, IMPACT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT As the Vietnam War dragged on, it became increasingly unpopular at home in the US, giving rise to one of the biggest anti-war movements ever seen. In this report I will be discus... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 2 Essays About 60 pages (17,858 words) in 4 products

Popular Entertainment: Escape and Engagement   When discussing a similar situation, authors tend to use different forms of writing to get their opinion across. In the three pieces, "Manufacturing Kid Criminals", "Can there be any other reaction?", and "Our society has a lot of targets"... Study Pack: 10 Summaries, 4 Essays About 137 pages (41,112 words) in 14 products

Feminist Perspectives   The women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s was not a political and social reaction limited to conditions of that time, but rather a reaction against many years of social and legal constraints on women in America. Life fo... Study Pack: 5 Summaries About 68 pages (20,414 words) in 5 products

Carson, Rachel   Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American biologist and writer whose book Silent Spring aroused an apathetic public to the dangers of chemical pesticides. Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pa. A solitary child, she... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 10 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 149 pages (44,791 words) in 16 products

Nader, Ralph   The American social crusader and lawyer Ralph Nader (born 1934) became a symbol of the public's concern over corporate ethics and consumer interests. He inspired investigations that were intended to improve the operations of industries and... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 6 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 41 pages (12,268 words) in 8 products

Oakes, Richard   Born 1942St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, New York Died September 20, 1972Sonoma County, California Ironworker, political activist Richard Oakes. © Richard... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 8 pages (2,400 words) in 2 products

The Smothers Brothers   Tom SmothersBorn February 2, 1937New York, New York Dick SmothersBorn November 20, 1939New York, New York American actors, comedians, and singers... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 19 pages (5,689 words) in 3 products

Leary, Timothy   Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was a psychologist, author, lecturer, and cult figure. He was best known for having popularized the use of mind-altering drugs in the 1960s. Timothy Leary was born October 22, 1920, in Springfield, Massachusetts. ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 67 pages (20,147 words) in 6 products

Hayden, Tom   The American writer and political activist Thomas Emmet Hayden (born 1939) was one of the few radical leaders of the 1960s to outlast the movement. He was admired for remaining alive politically without sacrifice of his principles. Tom Hay... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 3 Summaries About 21 pages (6,213 words) in 4 products

The Agony of Vietnam   At the peak of the Vietnam War, America had over five hundred thousand troops fighting against an estimated ten thousand Viet Cong guerillas. By all odds they should have easily overpowered their opposition and achieved their objective of k... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 24 Essays, 11 Criticisms About 657 pages (197,050 words) in 42 products

Lombardi, Vince   Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) was one of the most successful football coaches in the history of the game. His penchant for winning and doing one's best left a strong imprint on the game, as well as on players and fans. Vincent Lombardi was bo... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 3 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 37 pages (10,978 words) in 5 products