Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary
Terry H. Anderson examines the “movement” as a ''national ''phenomenon during the 1960s and includes all activists who demonstrated for social change. Responding to books that have focused on organizations (SNCC, SDS, etc.) and ideologies (writings by Goodman and Whyte) to understand the “movement,” Anderson argues that “social activism developed as a response to numerous problems” and the feeling that those problems were “inconsistent with the American ideal.” The movement was a loose alliance that evolved dramatically over the course of the 1960s, from civil rights to student power to anti-war. Anderson’s chronology is split into “two waves.” The first wave (1960-1968) began “in the South, from Greensboro to Selma, and spread [ing] up the east and west coasts to elite universities where students often formed or joined new left organizations” and the second wave began in 1968, after the days of decision between 1965 and 1967, the rise of Black Power and the Vietnam War. By the late 1960s, the movement had become vast and, to a certain extent, amorphous and disorganized when compared to the antecedents in the civil rights movement. “The first wave asked about the rights of black citizens, the rights of students, about their obligation fight a distant and undeclared war,” Anderson writes, “The second wave expanded the issues to include all minorities and women, and broadened the attack against the establishment.” (423)