Once you've thought through some search terms, search our collection of electronic reference sources for information on the 1960's. Wheeler's eTitles include the Dictionary of American History and UXL's American Decades.
If there is a key to successfully research a topic in the 1960s, it is to have the right search terms. Since this was a period when social causes, political issues, and popular culture profoundly influenced each other, you will have to be creative in selecting search terms.
Even if you are interested in a specific issue, you may want to think of the people involved in it.
| Civil Rights Movement | Vietnam | Politics / Counterculture |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Pacifism / pacifist | 1968 Democratic Convention |
| Desegregation | Antiwar movement | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Stokely Carmichael | Chemical warfare | John F. Kennedy |
| Black Power | Agent orange | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Selma/Montgomery March | Napalm | Fidel Castro |
| Freedom Riders / Freedom rides | Cambodia bombings | JFK Assasination |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | My Lai | Lyndon Johnson |
| Malcolm X | Tet Offensive | Great Society |
| Nation of Islam | Tonkin Gulf incident | Robert Kennedy |
| George Wallace | Vietnam media Coverage | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Orval Faubus | JFK foreign policy | Richard Nixon |
| March on Washington |
Diem coup | Watergate |
| Civil Rights | Concientious objector | Gerald Ford |
| Little Rock | Draft | Students for Democratic Society (SDS) |
| Sit-ins | Silent majority | Student protest |
| Segregation | Kent State | Hippies |
| Riots | ||
| National Association of Colored People (NAACP) | Additional Topics / | Search terms |
| Black Panther Party | National Organization for Women (NOW) | Free speech movement |
| Rosa Parks | Betty Friedan | Gay Liberation |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. African Americans |
The Feminine Mystique Women's Liberation |
Gay rights Stonewall |
| Birmingham |
Feminism |
Counter culture |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Woodstock festival / Woodstock |
Native American Rights |
| Bayard Rustin | Hispanic Rights | Wounded Knee |
| American Indian Movement | ||
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Special thanks to the University of Iowa LibGuide called The 1960's for their information on Search Terms.
