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ABC-CLIO Life andTimes in 20th Century America Volume 4 Troubled Times at Home 1961-1980 by Inc Projects Media
The 1960s brought great change to the social and cultural lives of Americans. Many more students went to college and rejected the traditional political, religious, and social values of their parents. Influenced first by the British Invasion of musical groups such as the Beatles, and later the folk music and resulting hippie culture of singers like Bob Dylan, young people fought for women's rights, civil rights, and, in the 1970s, the right to protest the Vietnam War. Americans triumphed when they sent the first men to the moon in 1969.show more