Camden County College Offers Full 1960s Experience Oct. 17

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Visitors to The Center at Camden County College will get the full 1960s experience on Wednesday, Oct. 17. There will be a special 60s Night event prior to one of its free lectures on the Vietnam War.

Tickets for 60s Night are $35 and includes a variety of wines from Visit South Jersey as well as appetizers. Music, artwork and film clips from the 60s will take visitors back in time to explore the triumphs and tragedies of the most tumultuous decade in American history.

At 7 p.m., University of Maryland History Lecturer Katarina Kean will present a mini lecture, "The World Will Know Peace: Opposition to the War in Southeast Asia." The lecture is part of a series called 1968: The Year that Changed America.

The opposition to the war in Vietnam was comprised of actors who crossed lines of race, class and political affiliation. United in their desire to end the war, these activists disagreed on tactics, goals and ethics. Kean will discuss the movement and assess whether it shortened or prolonged the war.

Keane is the Executive Director of the Center Global Migration Studies at University of Maryland, an interdisciplinary center examining the meanings and experiences of immigration and migration. Her dissertation explored the activism and contributions of Southern women in the American feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her teaching and research interests center on social movements in the post-1945 period. She earned her doctoral degree in history from the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Center (formerly the Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility) focuses on the needs and interests of educators and the community at large. Its goal is to create an informed citizenry through exploration of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and issues critical to a democratic society. Citizens have the opportunity to meet scholars, scientists, government officials and business leaders to explore historical and current issues and discuss societal problems and their solutions.

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