1964 was the yr the Beatles got here to America, Cassius Clay grew to become Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights employees have been murdered in Mississippi. It was the yr when Berkeley college students rose up in protest, African Individuals fought again towards injustice in Harlem, and Barry Goldwater’s conservative revolution took over the Republican Celebration. In myriad methods, 1964 was the yr when Individuals confronted selections: between the liberalism of Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater’s grassroots conservatism, between assist for the civil rights motion or opposition to it, between an embrace of the rising counterculture or a protection of conventional values.
