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The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade.
The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in Western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these nations, reaching large scale in nations such as Japan, Mexico and Canada as well. The term is used both nostalgically by those who participated in those events, and pejoratively by those who regard the time as a period whose harmful effects are still being felt today. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the libertine attitudes that emerged during the decade.
As with the Seventies, popular memory has conflated into the Sixties some events which did not actually occur during the period. For example, although some of the most dramatic events of the American civil rights movement occurred in the early 1960s, the movement had already begun in earnest during the 1950s. On the other hand, the rise of feminism and gay rights began in the 1960s and continued into the next few decades. Homosexual acts between consenting adults in private were legalised in England and Wales in 1967. The "Sixties" has become synonymous with all the new, exciting, radical, subversive and/or dangerous (according to one's viewpoint) events and trends of the period, which continued to develop in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.
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Songs The Fabulous Twilites played in the 1960s. Guess who played lead/rhythm guitar? http://bit.ly/2RDhDx #NightlyNiceMusic
tommcmullenjr (Tom McMullen) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:39:12 -0000
Songs The Fabulous Twilites played in the 1960s. Guess who played lead/rhythm guitar? http://bit.ly/2RDhDx #NightlyNiceMusic
1960s Cher? RT @rachaelrecker: http://twitpic.com/nszmq - My costume (I'm on the right). Any guesses?
wealthytheatre (A Service of CMC) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:34:40 -0000
1960s Cher? RT @rachaelrecker: http://twitpic.com/nszmq - My costume (I'm on the right). Any guesses?
Jazz! 1960s Psychedelic Hippie Culture and Music: Beatles Songs That Are ... http://bit.ly/3tCLVe
danorator (Dan James) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:19:43 -0000
Jazz! 1960s Psychedelic Hippie Culture and Music: Beatles Songs That Are ... http://bit.ly/3tCLVe
@geekandahalf Watching some black-and-white 1960s creepy horror movie whose name I don't know 'cos the schedule is wrong--!
valsadie (Valerie A. Hawkins) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:17:02 -0000
@geekandahalf Watching some black-and-white 1960s creepy horror movie whose name I don't know 'cos the schedule is wrong--!
@methody they said we would all be extinct in the 1960s - guess what we're still here
NewcastleBoy (Peter Longworth) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:58:47 -0000
@methody they said we would all be extinct in the 1960s - guess what we're still here
FREE BOAT GLASTRON 1960s ???? (Brookfield 60513): FREE BOAT: No Title No Trailer: This is a 15 or 16 foot Glas.. http://bit.ly/31UzCa
FreeListChicago (Free List: Chicago) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:40:39 -0000
FREE BOAT GLASTRON 1960s ???? (Brookfield 60513): FREE BOAT: No Title No Trailer: This is a 15 or 16 foot Glas.. http://bit.ly/31UzCa
1960s Flashback - Listings of top U.S. sports teams, books, movies, and TV shows during the 1960s.
Meta Description: [ Take a trip back to the 1960s and relive the good old days. Find 60s Music, news, TV and sports, 1960s Movies and books, reunions and the1960s fashion & more all from the 60s. ]
1968 Revisited - Items and commentary from the New York University Archives; timeline relates events from 1965 to 1971.
Digger Archives - The famed San Francisco anarchist/street theatre group presents its history and lives on.
Meta Description: [ History of the San Francisco Diggers
(1966-1968 and beyond) with Archive of scanned and rare Sixties Ephemera including
Digger and Free City Collective broadsides and manifestos ]
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collections - Online archive of documents and transcriptions from the movement that began in the late '60s.
Meta Description: [ A collection of manuscripts and pamphlets of the Women's
Liberation Movement, from the Duke University Special Collections Library. ]
Free Speech Movement Archives - Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley.
Meta Description: [ FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives Home Page - events from 1964 and following ]
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive - Information on the FSM digital archive from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
Freedom Archives - Organization based in San Francisco, USA, restores and archives audiotapes from the late-60s to the mid-90s that chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
Meta Description: [ Two line description goes here ]
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Greg Knight's Patio Culture - Discussion of suburbia and American suburban culture in the 1960s.
Meta Description: [ Greg Knight's Patio Culture! Suburban Living in the 1960's! ]
In the Memory of Four Little Girls - History and tribute to the four girls who died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Meta Description: [ Four little girls died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama
This site is a tribute to those four girls with history links, articles, discussion board, civil rights information, and more. ]
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - Text, audio, and video of JFK's inaugural address--January 20, 1961.
Meta Description: [ Full Text, audio mp3 and Real Video of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address ]
LBJ's Telephone Conversations - Listen to audio files of some of President Johnson's telephone conversations; from the LBJ Library.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - Text and audio of King's speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Meta Description: [ Full text and video and audio of Martin Luther King speech -- I Have A Drean ]
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New York 1964 World's Fair - 1964 World's Fair history site with illustrated articles and clickable maps with photos and commentary about 140 attractions.
Meta Description: [ World's Fair history site with illustrated articles, click-on maps with photos of 140 attractions. ]
Prague Spring 1968 - ThinkQuest site providing background on Czechoslovakian democratization, the invasion by the Soviet Union, and the aftermath.
SDS: Rebels with a Cause - Site for a documentary film about Students for a Democratic Society also has historical information.
Sixties City - Mostly pop culture look at the '60s from a UK perspective.
Meta Description: [ swinging sixties pop music charts and pages on 60s pirate radio fashion culture scifi Hammer Carry On Elvis James Bond UNCLE films television and events ]
Sixties Net - Pop culture, music, and snippets of history. Includes discussion forum and chat.
Meta Description: [ The mega-site on the 1960's-all the
people, places, events, music, news,
politics, fashions that make the '60s
so unique, plus mailing list, boomer
classifieds, '60s poll, boomer chat
and more! ]
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Sixties Store - The Haight-Ashbury scene; people, music, art, events; lots of photographs.
SNCC 1960-1966 - Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee .
The Greensboro Sit-ins - Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - A new chapter in the civil rights movement with an overview and photographs.
The Groovy Times - Numerous images of concert posters. Also, some short pieces on the sixties in London: Carnaby Street and nightlife.
Meta Description: [ Devoted to Sixties Psychedelic Posters. Also, a history of Carnaby Street (with sixties photos). US Garage Bands, the club scene in Swinging London and many galleries of the grooviest sixties chicks. ]
The Guardian: 1960s section of a millennium project - Year-by-year articles on the highlights of the decade.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - The American Museum of the Moving Image has examples of television commercials from presidential elections including 1960, 1964, and 1968.
The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change - Broad overview of 60s history and culture, illustrated by numerous pieces from the University of Virginia Library Special Collections.
The Sixties Project - Literature, essays, bibliographies, personal narratives, and graphic arts.
The Sixties Section - What Happened in the Sixties? - Stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation.
Meta Description: [ The stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation. ]
The Story of the Manson Family and their Victims - Extensive, well-illustrated site dealing with the 1969 murder spree.
Meta Description: [ Information about the Charles Manson family case and those connected to it ]
The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno - An article by Peter Dale Scott.
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 - Students at South Kingstown High School, Rhode Island, interviewed people about their experiences of the 1960s.
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Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties - Online exhibit of items from the Alternative Press Collection at the University of Connecticut Libraries.
Where Were You on July 20, 1969? - Collaborative journal of memories from the day of the first manned moon landing.
Meta Description: [ Stories from the day of the first Moon Landing, July 20, 1969, from witnesses here on Earth.
Memories from the Earthbound about Apollo 11 and the impact it had on their lives. An historical archive and time capsule
preserving one day on Earth that a large portion of the population has strong... ]
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