Bibliograph

America dreaming, how youth changed America in the sixties, Laban Carrick Hill

Type

Label

America dreaming, how youth changed America in the sixties, Laban Carrick Hill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 164) and index

Illustrations

illustrationschartsphotographsmaps

Index

index present

Intended audience

1190L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

America dreaming

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Laban Carrick Hill

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 9.8, 10, 120794

Sub title

how youth changed America in the sixties

Summary

Describes how the young Americans of the 1960s found creative ways to express their beliefs and views on political and social fronts that impacted and changed the course of history with regard to civil rights, women's rights, and other political issues

Table Of Contents

The fifties romper room : preschool for the boomer generation -- I wanna hold your hand : fueling idealism and its destruction -- Sitting at the counter : black college students lead the way to civil rights victories -- You say you want a revolution : the radical youth movement -- Feeling groovy : hippie culture and alternative lifestyles -- Burn, baby, burn : black nationalism and violent protest -- Our bodies, our politics : women taking control of their destiny -- Upside down American flag : fighting for Native American rights -- Somos Latinos : empowering Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans -- Earth Day : the origins of the environmental movement -- Making a rainbow : a legacy of progress

Target audience

adolescent

Classification