1. fig25_09.jpg Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president on the plane taking him to Washington from Dallas. On the left is Lady Bird Johnson, and on the right, Jacqueline Kennedy.
11. A fireman assaulting young African-American demonstrators with a high-pressure hose during the climactic demonstrations in Birmingham, June 1963. Broadcast on television, such pictures proved a serious problem for the United States in its battle for the “hearts and minds” of people around the world and forced the Kennedy administration to confront the contradiction between the rhetoric of freedom and the reality of racism.
12. fig25_14.jpg A semblance of normal life resumes amid the rubble of the Watts riot of August 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president on the plane taking him to Washington from Dallas. On the left is Lady Bird Johnson, and on the right, Jacqueline Kennedy. Credit: Cecil Stoughton, White House/John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston.
Page 980: Sit-in at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina, February 2, 1960. Credit: Bettmann/Corbis.
Page 981: Freedom Riders outside their burning bus near Anniston, Alabama, in 1961. Credit: Bettmann/Corbis.
Page 983: A fireman assaulting young African-American demonstrators with a high-pressure hose during the climactic demonstrations in Birmingham, June 1963. Broadcast on television, such pictures proved a serious problem for the United States in its battle for the “hearts and minds” of people around the world and forced the Kennedy administration to confront the contradiction between the rhetoric of freedom and the reality of racism. Credit: Bettmann/Corbis.
A semblance of normal life resumes amid the rubble of the Watts riot of August 1965. Credit: Bettmann/Corbis.
Page 1010: A 1970 women’s liberation demonstration at the Statue of Liberty. Credit: Bettmann/Corbis.
Page 1001: Mario Savio, a leader of the Free Speech Movement, addressing a crowd on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in November 1966. Credit: Library of Congress LC-U9-16653-10-14A.
Credit: JP Laffont/Sygma/Corbis.
César Chavez leading a march of striking Chicano farm workers in 1967. Credit: Ted Streshinsky/Corbis.