
1960S AMERICA: A DECADE OF CHANGE
THE JOURNEY OF A BOOMER
FURTHER READING
I have included a great list of further reading that you might want to look at if you are interested in learning more about the baby boomer generation and their experiences as teenagers in the 60s. Some of these I have also used, as part of my own research.
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The 1960s: A Decade of Heartbreak and Promise: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/03/09/the-1960s-a-decade-of-promise-and-heartbreak
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The Baby Boomer Generation Tells You What Happened to Them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bzk3X2Awyw
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Rock and Roll - The Affect it Had on Baby Boomers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxwS0SbusA
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How Baby Boomers Transformed Fashion: https://thefashionglobe.com/history-fashion-trends
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How the Vietnam War Empowered the Hippie Movement: https://www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-hippies-counter-culture
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Baby Boomers and Popular Culture: An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation: A preview can be found here
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Available to purchase here
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The Soundtrack of the Sixties Demanded Respect, Justice and Equality: https://theconversation.com/the-soundtrack-of-the-sixties-demanded-respect-justice-and-equality-10564
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The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Dream by Gary Young: A preview can be found here
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A Timeline of Events from 1965-69: https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-timeline-1965-1969-45444
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The Top 100 Motown Songs 1961-69: https://www.waybackattack.com/top100-motownhits.html
For a full list of references, including the images used on this site, click here.