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Author Gaines, James R., author.

Title The fifties : an underground history / James R. Gaines.

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2169364~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  306.0973 GAI    AVAILABLE
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Description xix, 266 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-253) and index.
Contents Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.
Summary "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Gay rights -- History.
Gay liberation movement -- History.
Feminism -- History.
History -- 20th century.
Added Title 1950s, an underground history
ISBN 9781439101636 (hardcover)
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