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Rorabaugh, W.J. Berkeley at War, The 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Overview of the politics of the 1960s in one key community.

	DeBenedetti, Charles. An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990.
	Rossinow, Doug.  The Politics of Authenticity : Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York : Columbia University Press, 1998.

Overview of reformist, radical, and traditional intellectual trends and activism in the 1960s.

	Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement. New York: Norton, 1990.
	Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
	Horne, Gerald. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
	Wei, William. The Asian American Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

A study of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

An account of one of the most visible incidents in the Indian Rights movement.

Linden-Ward, Blanche and Carol Hurd Green. American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

A study of woman’s activism in the 1960s.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

An overview of the environmental movement in America.

Harvey, Mark W.T. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Goines, David Lance. The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960's. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1993.

First-hand account of the Free-Speech Movement.

Bernstein, Irving. Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

A biography of LBJ.

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis--An Autobiography. New York, Random House, 1974.

Autobiography of Black Panther and radical activist, historian, and philosopher Angela Davis.

Heath, G. Louis. Off the Pigs!: The History and Literature of the Black Panther Party. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976.

Carmichael, Stokely. Free Huey. Detroit: Motown Record Corp., 1970. Phonodisc.

In this speech given on the occasion of a birthday celebration for the jailed Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Black power leader Stokely Carmichael promotes the theme of Black nationalism. PHONODISC DHdl 149

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Produced by Neil Goodwin. 57m. 1993. Videorecording.

While focusing on Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, the story of how one scientist's courage changed the way we think about our world. VIDEOTAPE 01900

Berkeley in the Sixties. Produced and directed by Mark Kitchell. 105m. 1990. Videorecording.

Pt. 1. Confronting the university: the free speech movement -- pt. 2. Confronting America: the anti-war movement -- pt. 3. Confronting history: the counter-culture movement. Through interviews with participants and archival footage, presents a history of Berkeley, California in the 1960s. VIDEOTAPE 01245

Vietnam: The War at Home. Produced and directed by Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown. 100m. 1986. Videorecording.

The anti-war movement in America is described, concentrating on the political activities of students at the the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Included is television news footage of events and people at that time. VIDEOTAPE 02656

Rachel Carson Homestead

Includes information about the birthplace and childhood home of the author of Silent Spring. Also provides access to electronic information about her life and work.http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Lyndon B. Johnson

Listen to secretly recorded conversations made by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the White House Oval Office. http://www.hpol.org/lbj/

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1962.

	Mariscal, George.  Aztlán and Viet Nam : Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War.  Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
	Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Revolt of the Cockroach People. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.

An account of one lawyer’s contribution to the Brown Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement

An online archive from Duke University’s Special Collections. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

The Feminist and Lesbian Periodical Collection

Contains 482 lesbian and feminist periodical titles including 36 Oregon titles and 31 international titles. The entire collection spans from 1932 to 1997 and 80 percent with titles covering the 1970s. In Special Collections.

Right Wing Collection.

177 reels. A collection of right wing periodicals. Finding aid: The Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection (REFERENCE Z1244.M514). In Microforms.