About The Sixties Video Titles

Description: Presenting The Sixties Video Online, the video component of Alexander Street's product The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974. This collection contains fifty hours of primary footage and secondary documentaries that explore the key events of the sixties and early seventies, including the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement and the sexual revolution. It features interviews with major players of the decade, including political leaders John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Richard Nixon, and revolutionaries such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, and Elaine Brown. Major video partners include NBC Universal, CBS, the Huey Newton Foundation, and Educational Video Group, featuring programs such as Meet the Press. The primary footage and first-hand accounts found in the collection give unique insight into the decade's fight to improve universal rights and is the perfect companion to the primary documents found in Alexander Street's The Sixties.

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