Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s
By Milton Viorst
I recommend this clearly-written book illuminating the Civil Rights and Student Movements from 1960 to 1970.
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"This is the story of how Americans for the first time took to the streets by the thousands, sometimes by the tens of thousands, to resolve disputes once left to the established governmental process. Fire in the Streets is the dramatic account of the sequence of events, the range of ideas, the diversity of personalities and the nature of the explosive confrontations which made up the richness and complexity of the period. And it is about how political change effectuated during the decade has remained permanent."
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Chapters cover the following events:
- Montgomery bus boycott
- Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins
- Freedom Rides
- Port Huron Statement
- March on Washington, 1963
- Mississippi Summer Project; the murders of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman; and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- Watts riots
- Black Panther Party
- Anti-war Movement
- Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968
- Days of Rage
- Kent State Massacre
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I was too young to participate but I made sandwiches for the Freedom Riders. Came back from Mexico to see soldiers on the streets of Chicago during the convention. My parents cried when the bodies were found of the 3 civil rights workers. Fanny Lou Hamer lives!
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