As complacent as the late 1950s and early 1960s may have been, the evolving decade of the Sixties would become quite different. The civil rights revolution would gather greater force and speed; a youth culture no longer willing to accept the status quo would question authority and demand answers; sexual, drug, and feminist revolutions would further change American society and finally, a war in Vietnam would divide the country and create wounds that would take decades to heal.

