This course is available via ZOOM and IN-PERSON. A ZOOM recording will be available.
The 1960s was the decade that never rested — inaugurating our youngest President, pledging to reach the moon that decade, assassinating our leaders, meeting the Beatles. Everyone gets the right to vote, rock music controls the airways, LBJ quits, and Nixon is hired. In this course, the instructor will look at the good and the bad, and probe the issues that continue to confound us. The first session will focus on the road from Eisenhower to Nixon and changing times. The second session will look at war and violence at home and abroad, and explore four pivotal figures: JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X. The last session will look at New Mexico in the 1960s and national changes in the national media, culture, and music.