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From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone. [2] Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975.
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade is a 2006 book by Ann Fessler which describes and recounts the experiences of women in the United States who relinquished babies for adoption between 1950 and the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon, novel of the changes from 1960s to 1980s counterculture in Northern California; Summer of Love, by Lisa Mason, novel about the period; Baby Driver, a semi-autobiographical novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack Kerouac; My Hippie Grandmother, a children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter, 2003
Oracle of Southern California, Los Angeles; The Organ, Fresno, 1968; The Organ, San Francisco, 1970–1971; Peninsula Observer, Palo Alto; The San Diego Door, San Diego, 1966–1970 (formerly Good Morning, Teaspoon) San Diego Free Press, San Diego 1968–1970 (changed name to San Diego Street Journal)
The Los Angeles Free Press, also called the "Freep", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. [2] The Freep was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971 and continued on as its editor-in-chief through June 1973.
IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...
It’s estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 communes existed in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Fast-forward 50 years, and it seems that little has changed.
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. Knopf. Rosales, Oliver A. (2024). Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley. University of Texas Press. Ruiz, V. L. (1987). Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 ...