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1960s Flashback - http://www.1960sflashback.com/
Listings of top U.S. sports teams, books, movies, and TV shows during the 1960s.

1968 Revisited - http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/arch/Homepg/Index.html
Items and commentary from the New York University Archives; timeline relates events from 1965 to 1971.

Chicago '68 - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/
A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Digger Archives - http://www.diggers.org/
The famed San Francisco anarchist/street theatre group presents its history and lives on.

Free Speech Movement Archives - http://www.fsm-a.org/
Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley.

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive - http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
Information on the FSM digital archive from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

Freedom Archives - http://www.freedomarchives.org/
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.

Greg Knight's Patio Culture - http://www.patioculture.net
Discussion of American suburban culture in the 1960s.

In the Memory of Four Little Girls - http://useekufind.com/peace/
History and tribute to the four girls who died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnfkennedyinaugural.htm
Text, audio, and video of JFK's inaugural address delivered on January 20, 1961.

LBJ's Telephone Conversations - http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/Dictabelt.hom/content.asp
Listen to audio files of some of President Johnson's telephone conversations; from the LBJ Library.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
Text and audio of King's speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

New York 1964 World's Fair - http://www.westland.net/ny64fair/
1964 World's Fair history site with illustrated articles and clickable maps with photos and commentary about 140 attractions.

New York World's Fair 1964-65 - http://www.nywf64.com/
Although this site is poorly organized, it has some excellent photographs and information about the "Space Age" fair.

Prague Spring 1968 - http://library.thinkquest.org/C001155
ThinkQuest site providing background on Czechoslovakian democratization, the invasion by the Soviet Union, and the aftermath.

SDS: Rebels with a Cause - http://www.sdsrebels.com/
Site for a documentary film about Students for a Democratic Society also has historical information.

Sixties City - http://www.sixtiescity.com/
Mostly pop culture look at the '60s from a UK perspective.

Sixties Net - http://www.sixties.net/
Pop culture, music, and snippets of history. Includes discussion forum and chat.

SNCC 1960-1966 - http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee .

The 1960s from 50+ Surfers - http://www.fiftyplussurfers.co.uk/id115.html
An entryway into websites devoted to the popular music and culture of the 1960s.

The Greensboro Sit-ins - Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - http://www.sitins.com/
A new chapter in the civil rights movement with an overview and photographs.

The Groovy Times - http://www.nicke.abelgratis.com/
Numerous images of concert posters. Also, some short pieces on the sixties in London: Carnaby Street and nightlife.

The Guardian: 1960s section of a millennium project - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Millennium/0,2833,246654,00.html
Year-by-year articles on the highlights of the decade.

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
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 - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/
Broad overview of 60s history and culture, illustrated by numerous pieces from the University of Virginia Library Special Collections.

The Sixties Project - http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/
Literature, essays, bibliographies, personal narratives, and graphic arts.

The Sixties Section - What Happened in the Sixties? - http://www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm
Stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation.

The Story of the Manson Family and their Victims - http://www.cielodrive.com
Extensive, well-illustrated site dealing with the 1969 murder spree.

The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno - http://www.namebase.org/scott.html
An article by Peter Dale Scott.

The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/
Students at South Kingstown High School, Rhode Island, interviewed people about their experiences of the 1960s.

Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties - http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/exhibits/voices/
Online exhibit of items from the Alternative Press Collection at the University of Connecticut Libraries.

Where Were You on July 20, 1969? - http://www.wherewereyou.com/
Collaborative journal of memories from the day of the first manned moon landing.

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