Martin Luther King Jr

United States
David Erickson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech (circa 1963)

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister, author and the leading American civil rights campaigner of his generation

Jimi Hendrix

United States
Original photographer unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jimi Hendrix playing at the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden (1967)

Jimi Hendrix

David Frost

United Kingdom
Photographer not credited. Signature by Diahann Carrol, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Cropped / Restored)
Portrait photograph of David Frost (1971)

David Frost

Victoria Brooke

United Kingdom
Victoria Brooke

Victoria Brooke

Bob Colacello

United States
David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bob Colacello at the '2011 Tribeca Film Festival' Vanity Fair party, New York City, New York, USA (2011)

Bob Colacello

Woodstock: The Festival of the Decade

United States
Woodstock Whisperer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Edited)
Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival, Bethel, New York, USA (1969)

The Woodstock Festival in 1969 is remembered as a symbol of the Sixties counterculture

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Influential people

Kenneth Anger

United States
Film by Kenneth Anger. Distributed by Impact Films., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Publicity image of Kenneth Anger on the set of his movie 'Scorpio Rising' (1964)
Filmmaker

Kenneth Anger

Michael X

Trinidad and Tobago
Michael X
Civil Rights Campaigner, Black Empowerment Promoter

Michael X

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At the heart of the sixties

Nicky Samuel met many key figures from the Sixties. Her memoirs capture the essence of the decade and a panorama of the sexual revolution and counterculture.

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Tilted hardback book cover mock-up of 'Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves'

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Granny Takes a Trip

United Kingdom
Elderly woman laughing whilst wearing 60s-fashion clothes
London fashion boutique

Granny Takes a Trip

The Black House

United Kingdom
Holloway Road, Lower Holloway by David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Holloway Road, Lower Holloway, London, United Kingdom (2008)
Black Power Commune

The Black House

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