For Further Study

Below is a listing of links that may give some background to the recordings featured elsewhere on our site. This list does not represent a complete listing of sources regarding 1968 topics, rather they are here to provide a jump-off point for your studies.

1968 Overviews

• 1968 - A Year in Sound (produced by Lou Zambrana)
• PBS: American Experience | RFK | Shock Year: 1968
• The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968
• History Channel - 1968
• NYU Archives: 1968 Revisited
• 1968 History Web Page
• 1968: The year that changed history | From the Observer | guardian.co.uk [photos]
• The People History - 1968
• BBC - Radio 4 - Memoryshare 1968
• University of Virginia - Psychedelic 60s - 1968 Literature
• Kingwood College Library - American Cultural History - 1960-69
• Library of Congress - Herb Block Cartoons - The Other Ascent Into the Unknown
• Rockument - The Rise and Fall of Haight-Ashbury

 

Vietnam War

• http://www.vietnamwar.com
• Wikipedia - Tet Offensive
• Statistics about the Vietnam War
• Vassar College - the wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
• Library of Congress - Women of Four Wars: Korea & Vietnam

 

Protests

• Columbia University [Uprising] - 1968
• Wikipedia - Protests of 1968
• May 1968 Archive
• Wikipedia - Orangeburg Massacre
• Wayne State - Reuther Library - I AM A MAN - An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

 

Civil Rights

• Civil Rights Movement Timeline
• Civil Rights Act of 1968 [Fair Housing Act] [full text]
• The King Center
• Long Island University - A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

If you know of any sites that should be added to this list, please e-mail Oleg at: lifeinoleg 'at' gmail.com.

 

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