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Author Chat: "The Women Who Invented the '60s" NEW

With Steve Golin

This is a free Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.

Steve Golin, professor emeritus of Bloomfield College and one of our most beloved Adult School instructors, chats about his latest book, "The Women Who Invented the Sixties: Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan," with Jerise Fogel of Montclair State University. Q&A period to follow. Book signing and sale.

"While there were many protests in the 1950s—against racial segregation, economic inequality, urban renewal, McCarthyism, and the nuclear buildup—the movements that took off in the early 1960s were qualitatively different. They were sustained, not momentary; they were national, not just local; they changed public opinion, rather than being ignored. "Women Who Invented the Sixties" tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow."—University Press of Missisisippi

"Baker, Jacobs, Carson and Friedan served as role models for those who continue to challenge the status quo in the quest for a better world. In his thoughtful study, Golin gives them the credit they earned."—Robert D. Parmet, New York Labor History Association

Steve Golin, historian, taught for 40 years at Kansas State University and Bloomfield College; and is also the author of two prize-winning books on New Jersey history.

Dr. Jerise Fogel teaches in the Classics and General Humanities Department at Montclair State University; she has a longstanding interest in the performance of Greek drama, and has performed in and directed a number of different tragedies and comedies from the ancient world—some in classical Greek.

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