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This conference discussed drug-related issues, such as addiction, trafficking, and public health policy. The photograph offers a glimpse into a significant historical moment in the United States' ongoing struggle with drug-related problems with Nixon…

A speech by Martin Luther King calling for equality in the United States between all races.

The Pentagon Papers are classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 which revealed the hidden history of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam. (Fueled a lot of social unrest)

A book that the displays the rise of various social movements like the Civil Rights movement, anti-war protests against Vietnam, and the New Left.

A book exploring the various social and political movements of the 1960s, including the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, and the counterculture.

A book examining the social and political divisions within the United States during the 1960s

A list of teaching guidelines for Freedom Schools teachers in Mississippi during the Freedom Schools Movement (1964).

A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.

Photographer Billy Downs. Signs the demonstrators hold read "Separate is not equal" and "Segregation is not democratic."