SUGGESTED READING ★ A-17Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
(1981). A study of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its
impact on the 1960s.
D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual
Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 (1983). Explores the status of gay
men and lesbians in mid- twentieth- century America and the rise of the
gay movement.
Dierenfield, Bruce. The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed
America (2007). One controversial Supreme Court decision of the 1960s
and its long- term consequences.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994).
Traces the civil rights movement in one state, looked at from the experi-
ence of grassroots activists.
Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (1998). Analyzes
how the Supreme Court redefined the rights of Americans under Chief
Justice Earl Warren.
Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the
1960s (2000). A comprehensive account of the social movements and polit-
ical debates of the 1960s.
Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black
Power in America (2007). Demonstrates how the rise of Black Power
reconfigured both African- American identity and race relations in the late
1960s.
Logevall, Frederik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of
America’s Vietnam (2012). An international account of the origins of
American military intervention in Vietnam.
McCartin, James P. Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American
Catholics (2010). Examines the impact of the 1960s on the Catholic Church.
Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed
America (2000). Considers how the “second wave” of feminism trans-
formed the lives of American women and men.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement,
1962–1992 (1993). A brief history of one of the most significant move-
ments to emerge from the 1960s.
Skretny, John. The Minority Rights Revolution (2002). An account of the rights
revolution and how it affected American society and its understanding of
the rights of citizens.
WEBSITES
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965–1971: http://american
history.si.edu/lisalaw/1.htm