Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 019514290X ISBN13: 9780195142907 Release Date: December 2002 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 560 Pages Weight: 1.05 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.1" The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets, public speeches, and personal voices, the selections range from the Port Huron Statement and the NOW Bill of Rights to speeches by Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, to private letters from civil rights workers and Vietnam soldiers. Introductions and headnotes by the editors highlight the importance of particular documents, relating them to each other and plac