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The Sixties: The Times They Are A-Changin'
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The Times They Are A-Changin'
Season 1  |  Episode 9  |  SBS  |  October 21, 2014

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Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, conservatism, and the gay rights movements were fuelled by deep yearnings for freedom by a generation unwilling to wait.

Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, conservatism, and the gay rights movements were fuelled by deep yearnings for freedom by a generation unwilling to wait.

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Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, conservatism, and the gay rights movements were fuelled by deep yearnings for freedom by a generation unwilling to wait.

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