The 1968 Project

The 1968 Exhibit is brought to us by The Minnesota Historical Society, in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. It comes to OMCA in Spring 2012. The social forces that swirled through the turbulent 1960s crested in 1968. It was a turning point for a generation coming of age and a nation at war. The year saw the peak of the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, riots at the Democratic National Convention, assertions of Black Power at the Olympic Games and feminist demonstrations at the Miss America pageant. Hair opened on Broadway, Laugh-In debuted and became the number-one show on TV, Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate picked up Oscars and Johnny Cash gave a legendary performance at Folsom Prison. In the closing days of the year, we saw Earth in its entirety for the first time from the window of the Apollo 8 space capsule. The 1968 Project is the accompanying book to the exhibition.
2011; softcover; 240 pages; 8 x 9"

$24.95