TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaines,James R.
TI  - The fifties: an underground history 
SN  - 9781439101636
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Gay rights
KW  - History
KW  - Gay liberation movement
KW  - Feminism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Nineteen fifties
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--; "The Fifties is a dazzling and provocative work of history that transforms our understanding of a seemingly staid decade and honors the pioneers of gay rights, feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism. The book carries the powerful message that change actually begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of de-centered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves." -- inside front jacket flap
ER  -