The Sixties” started long before John F. Kennedy set up shop in the White House or those four young black men in Greensboro, North Carolina, politely asked the waitress at the all-white lunch counter for a cup of coffee. Before the Beatles rocked Shea Stadium, the Sixties was taking root in the most unexpected places. Before there was long hair and the “generation gap” and the terrible war, what would become the Sixties was being born in the hearts of millions. The era was conceived in the prosperous victory culture that blessed the United States after so many years of sacrifice. It also was born in the struggles for racial justice as well as in the wrenching fears of Cold War apocalypse.