HIST 4827 - America in the 1960s

(3 credits)

Prerequisites: HIST 3410 The domestic history of the United States during the 1960s, with emphasis on the era’s social and cultural forces Civil Rights-Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, the Black Power Movement; Social Policy-John F. Kennedy’s “New Frontier”, Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society.” The impact of Vietnam and 1968 on the home front, antiwar protests, the counterculture, student rights, modern feminism, environmentalism, and the popular music and literature of the decade.

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