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Terry Anderson, historian, Texas A & M University has
a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University, M.A. from the University
of Missouri. While he worked on his Ph.D. he was the assistant Oral
Historian at Indiana University, and taught there, and at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute before joining the TAMU System in 1981.
He has taught at the Texas International Education Consortium in
Malaysia, in Japan, was a Fulbright professor in China, and from
1979-1988 was The Oral Historian at Texas A&M. He is a Vietnam
veteran. His books include A Flying Tiger's Diary
(now in its Sixth printing) and The Sixties.
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Politics & Protest: The
Sixties
February 23-27, 2000
at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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It began in 1960 with sit-ins in Greensboro North Carolina.
By 1973, when Richard Nixon began his second term and the U.S.
Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between were Freedom
Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma,
Vietnam, Black Power, the Chicago Democratic Convention, hippies,
and Women's Liberation. Why did it happen and what did it mean?
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Terry Anderson, The Sixties.
Cleveland Sellers (with Robert Terrell), The River Of
No Return: The Autobiography of A Black Militant.
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried.
Sara Davidson, Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties.
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