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Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
1.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating β 918 ratings
2.
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
by:
Natalia Molina
4.15 avg rating β 422 ratings
3.
And a Voice to Sing With
by:
Joan Baez
3.94 avg rating β 1,180 ratings
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Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.10 avg rating β 260 ratings
5.
Assata: An Autobiography
by:
Assata Shakur
4.59 avg rating β 29,696 ratings
6.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by:
Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β 285,209 ratings
6.
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
by:
Stokely Carmichael
4.43 avg rating β 469 ratings
8.
Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI
by:
Judy Gumbo
4.39 avg rating β 49 ratings
9.
Soul on Ice
by:
Eldridge Cleaver
3.97 avg rating β 14,659 ratings
10.
The Book Of Ammon
by:
Ammon Hennacy
4.14 avg rating β 35 ratings
11.
An Autobiography
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating β 10,451 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
by:
John Lewis
4.60 avg rating β 3,777 ratings
13.
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
by:
Mark Rudd
3.73 avg rating β 383 ratings
13.
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by:
Suze Rotolo
3.85 avg rating β 4,069 ratings
15.
The Making of Black Revolutionaries
by:
James Forman
4.31 avg rating β 58 ratings
16.
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
by:
Bobby Seale
4.35 avg rating β 1,642 ratings
17.
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
by:
Emmett Grogan
4.13 avg rating β 517 ratings
18.
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
by:
David Gilbert
4.16 avg rating β 128 ratings
18.
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
by:
Elaine Brown
4.30 avg rating β 4,578 ratings
18.
Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service
by:
Raymond Mungo
3.79 avg rating β 38 ratings
21.
Fugitive Days: A Memoir
by:
Bill Ayers
3.68 avg rating β 650 ratings
22.
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
by:
Mumia Abu-Jamal
4.44 avg rating β 502 ratings
23.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.34 avg rating β 23,720 ratings
23.
Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me
by:
Stuart Christie
4.10 avg rating β 330 ratings
25.
Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle
by:
Peter Coyote
3.95 avg rating β 473 ratings
26.
Martin Luther King Jr.: A King Family Tribute
by:
Angela Farris Watkins
3.95 avg rating β 21 ratings
27.
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
by:
Emmett Grogan
4.13 avg rating β 517 ratings
28.
When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years
by:
Stanley Meisler
3.75 avg rating β 163 ratings
29.
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by:
Ed Sanders
4.12 avg rating β 154 ratings
30.
Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs
by:
Marc Eliot
4.16 avg rating β 144 ratings
31.
Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis
by:
Jerry Lewis Avorn
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
31.
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
by:
Sheila Rowbotham
3.71 avg rating β 84 ratings
31.
My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
by:
Alix Dobkin
3.70 avg rating β 37 ratings
31.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,401 ratings
31.
Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
by:
Abbie Hoffman
4.07 avg rating β 453 ratings
31.
Jennifer Juniper: A journey beyond the muse
by:
Jenny Boyd
3.86 avg rating β 576 ratings
31.
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
by:
Doyle D. Glass
4.50 avg rating β 1,261 ratings
31.
Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva
by:
Martha Reeves
3.87 avg rating β 62 ratings
31.
No Soldier Left Behind: The Life and Times of Brigadier General John G Kulhavi, United States Army, Ret.
by:
Donald Steele
4.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
31.
A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Change It
by:
Dee Knight
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
41.
Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1996
by:
Harry S. Ashmore
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
41.
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
by:
David T. Dellinger
4.40 avg rating β 55 ratings
41.
At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Making of an Activist
by:
Jo Freeman
3.25 avg rating β 16 ratings
41.
Die Nigger Die!
by:
H. Rap Brown
4.35 avg rating β 713 ratings
41.
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by:
Jon Lee Anderson
4.14 avg rating β 24,227 ratings
41.
Buses Are a Comin'
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating β 918 ratings
41.
Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar
by:
Peter Benjaminson
3.63 avg rating β 136 ratings
48.
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
by:
Dorothy I. Height
4.18 avg rating β 320 ratings
48.
The Other American: The Life Of Michael Harrington
by:
Maurice Isserman
4.28 avg rating β 61 ratings
48.
Growing Up Underground
by:
Jane Alpert
3.56 avg rating β 48 ratings
48.
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
by:
Hunter S. Thompson
3.98 avg rating β 53,576 ratings
48.
The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (1) (Kerseplebedeb)
by:
J. Smith
4.38 avg rating β 88 ratings
48.
Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa | Rock Music Biography and Memoir of a Legendary Musician | Behind the Scenes with The Turtles and Frank Zappaβs Band
by:
Howard Kaylan
3.87 avg rating β 391 ratings
54.
We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords
by:
Miguel MelΓ©ndez
3.97 avg rating β 147 ratings
54.
My Song: A Memoir
by:
Harry Belafonte
4.20 avg rating β 959 ratings
54.
Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings
by:
John Dear
4.33 avg rating β 67 ratings
54.
Troublemaker: A Memoir From the Front Lines of the Sixties
by:
Bill Zimmerman
3.93 avg rating β 41 ratings
54.
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells
by:
Tommy James
3.90 avg rating β 1,114 ratings
59.
Mayor: Notes on the Sixties
by:
Ivan Allen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
59.
The Berrigan Brothers: The Story of Daniel and Philip Berrigan.
by:
Richard Curtis
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
59.
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
by:
Peter Andreas
4.08 avg rating β 425 ratings
62.
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
by:
Cathy Wilkerson
3.65 avg rating β 192 ratings
62.
Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
by:
Robert Irwin
3.66 avg rating β 112 ratings
62.
Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary
by:
Philip Berrigan
3.89 avg rating β 37 ratings
62.
Target Zero: A Life in Writing
by:
Eldridge Cleaver
3.96 avg rating β 27 ratings
62.
Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary
by:
Pat Thomas
4.08 avg rating β 24 ratings
67.
This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party
by:
David Hilliard
4.01 avg rating β 110 ratings
67.
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
by:
Morris Dickstein
3.48 avg rating β 63 ratings
67.
There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs
by:
Michael Schumacher
4.30 avg rating β 233 ratings
67.
Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolutionary
by:
Jonathan Lerner
3.54 avg rating β 24 ratings
71.
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by:
Robert Stone
3.54 avg rating β 441 ratings
72.
Living for Change
by:
Grace Lee Boggs
4.19 avg rating β 407 ratings
72.
Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party
by:
Flores A. Forbes
3.70 avg rating β 82 ratings
74.
The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook
by:
James Boggs
4.46 avg rating β 84 ratings
74.
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
by:
Stokely Carmichael
4.37 avg rating β 2,102 ratings
74.
Red Diaper Daughter: Three Generations of Rebels and Revolutionaries
by:
Laura Bock
3.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
77.
Daybreak
by:
Joan Baez
3.89 avg rating β 318 ratings
77.
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by:
Karla Jay
3.94 avg rating β 276 ratings
77.
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
by:
Ruth Rosen
3.90 avg rating β 623 ratings
80.
Pete Seeger: In His Own Words (Nine Lives Music Series)
by:
Pete Seeger
4.17 avg rating β 104 ratings
80.
Disarmed And Dangerous: The Radical Lives And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan
by:
Murray Polner
4.09 avg rating β 56 ratings
80.
WHO THE HELL IS STEW ALBERT
by:
Stewart Edward Albert
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings
83.
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
by:
Pete Seeger
4.06 avg rating β 18 ratings
83.
Comrade George: An Investigation Into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson
by:
Eric Mann
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
85.
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
by:
Tariq Ali
3.92 avg rating β 247 ratings
85.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies
by:
Pete Seeger
4.50 avg rating β 38 ratings
85.
Woodstock Nation: A Talk-rock Album
by:
Abbie Hoffman
3.91 avg rating β 188 ratings
88.
The Incompleat Folksinger
by:
Pete Seeger
4.34 avg rating β 64 ratings
88.
Julian Bond: Black Rebel
by:
John Neary
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
90.
Up Against the Wall Motherf**er: A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
by:
Osha Neumann
3.46 avg rating β 76 ratings
90.
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
by:
Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating β 16 ratings
90.
Reunion: A Memoir
by:
Tom Hayden
3.45 avg rating β 42 ratings
93.
Pete Seeger: Storm King - Volume 2
by:
Pete Seeger
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
93.
Spiritual people, radical lives: Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, A.J. Muste
by:
Gary Commins
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
95.
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
by:
Faith S. Holsaert
4.45 avg rating β 182 ratings
95.
Andrew Young & the Making of Modern Atlanta
by:
Andrew Young
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
95.
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Daniel Levine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 8 ratings
98.
Negroes with Guns
by:
Robert Franklin Williams
4.51 avg rating β 1,078 ratings
98.
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
by:
Clarence B. Jones
4.12 avg rating β 181 ratings
98.
Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist
by:
Jacqueline Houtman
4.42 avg rating β 38 ratings
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