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An award-winning historian on?the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics?for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964?or rather, the long 1964, from JFK?s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965?was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that?the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of ?American,? with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement.It was?a radical shift accompanied by a cultural revolution. The same month Bob Dylan released his iconic ballad ?The Times They Are a-Changin?,? January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty. Spurred by the civil rights movement and a generation pushing for change, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Immigration and Nationality Act were passed during this period. This?was a time of competing