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Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s (1960–1969)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Visions of a New Era




JFK: “The New Frontier”




Eisenhower’s Farewell Address




JFK: “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You”




EO 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps




Newton Minow: “Television and the Public Interest”




JFK: “We Choose to Go to the Moon”




George Wallace: “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, and Segregation Forever”




LBJ: “The Great Society”




Barry Goldwater: “Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice”




Ronald Reagan: “A Time for Choosing”




Confrontations with Communism




Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana




JFK: Report on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba




Foreign Relations of the United States (1961-1963): Southeast Asia—Vietnam




JFK: “A Strategy of Peace”




JFK: “Ich bin ein Berliner”




Limited Test Ban Treaty




LBJ: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident




LBJ: “Peace without Conquest”




Robert S. McNamara: “No Attractive Course of Action”




The Tet Offensive: A CIA Assessment




LBJ: Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam




Richard Nixon: "The Silent Majority” and "Vietnamization"




Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Antiwar Activism




Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Constitution




Port Huron Statement




Engel v. Vitale




Gideon v. Wainwright




MLK: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”




Huldah (Beth) Taylor: Account of My Participation in the Sit-ins




Equal Pay Act of 1963




John L. Lewis: Address to the March on Washington




MLK: “I Have a Dream”




Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”




Civil Rights Act of 1964




Mario Savio: “Put Your Bodies upon the Gears”




Call for a March on Washington to End the War




LBJ: “The American Promise”




Griswold v. Connecticut




Miranda v. Arizona




National Organization for Women (NOW) Founding Statement




Loving v. Virginia




An Antidraft Call to Action




Huey Newton: A Black Panther on Self-Defense




EO 11246: Nondiscrimination in Government Employment




RFK: “An Unwinnable War”




Indian Civil Rights Act




César Chávez: Prayer of the Farm Workers’ Struggle




Weathermen Manifesto




Stonewall Riot Leaflet




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography