Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

The 1960s opened with a sit-down strike by four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, and ended with the repercussions of the riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The decade witnessed civil rights demonstrations and violence, student protests, the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, and others. This multimedia presentation revisits one of the nation’s most disruptive and turbulent decades.