Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies

by Bennett M. Judkins

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582280915
• ISBN13: 9780582280915
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice Overview Of the Turbulent Sixties!

For those of us who lived through the times and the waves of social movements and protests described herein, reading this book is like a visit from an old friend who reminds you, with anecdotes and memories, of things long since lost and forgotten. From the sit-ins of the civil rights movement in Greensboro, in the early years to the armed confrontation between federal forces and the rag-tag group of grim Native Americans at Wounded Knee and beyond to the anti-nuclear power movement, this tome covers the garden variety of different movements and social events commonly referred to as sixties protest. It is a book characterized by smart reporting, detailed documentation, and a sparkling prose style ins service to show just how wild and varied the perspectives and issues swirling through the decade or so covered in the book really were. The turbulence started, of course, with the civil rights movement, and the book works well in threading through the various aspects of the movement and its many twists and turns. With the start of the war in Vietnam, all hell broke loose in terms of the social tumult that seemed to be released, and the campuses became a hotbed of political foment and active questioning of authority in general. This led, as the author shows, to a whole rafter of different movements, ranging all the way from the violent protests against the war in Vietnam and the Gene McCarthy campaign in the Spring and summer of 1968 and the student revolt at the Chicago location of the Democratic national Convention, to the evolution of the feminist movement and later the anti-nukes crusade of the seventies. The flood of names and places recollected here is indeed fairly comprehensive, as is the catalogue of different issues and concerns raised in the various social concerns and civil protests. The author is fairly faithful to the social philosophies informing much of this activity, which is of critical import in placing the activity in better social context. While other books serve to better describe the philosophies of the leaders of various movements, this book does a credible job of providing a concise, accurate, and fairly comprehensive overview of the wide range of different albeit related issues and concerns that led to so much active protest and activism during the most turbulent decade in the last century. Enjoy!