Feminists Gloria Steinem and Pamela Hughes giving the “black power” salute. 1972. (Photographer: Dan Wynn. Reproduced by Permission of Farmani Gallery and the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.)

Kinsey (at podium, right) addressing students at the University of California, Berkeley. (Reproduced by permission of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Inc.)

Dr. Benjamin Spock, August 1962, measuring a two year old Linda, who had been coming to see him twice a week since birth. His book, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child care,” had a lasting influence on childrearing practices. “Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced by permission of Magnum Photos, Inc.)

The Rev. Billy Graham preaching to a vast crowd on Wall Street. (Reproduced by permission of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.)

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner at work on his first issue, 1952. (Reproduced by permission of Playboy Enterprises.)

Hugh Hefner surrounded by “bunnies” at one of his many Playboy clubs. (Reproduced by permission of Playboy Enterprises.)

Hugh Hefner Scrutinizing photographs on a light table in his bedroom. (Reproduced by permission of Playboy Enterprises.)

Feminist Betty Friedan (right), author of “The Feminist Mystique,” talking to a small group of women. (Reproduced by permission of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.)

Author and Activist Gloria Steinem (center, with glasses) at a women’s consciousness-raising session, circa 1970. (Reproduced by permission of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.)

Unheard of ten years earlier, women’s demonstrations began to fill city streets by the late 1960’s. (Photographer: Reproduced by permission of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.)

Pat Boone backstage with the other teen icon of the fifties, Elvis Presley. (Reproduced by Permission of Pat Boone.)

Pat Boone, standing in a convertible flashing his signature “white bucks” to an enthusiastic crowd in Akron, Ohio. (Reproduced by permission of Pat Boone.)

High school students in the 1950’s were the first generation to have sufficient income to create a vibrant youth market. (Reproduced by permission of the Mississippi Valley Collection, The University of Memphis.)

Vested in patriotism and conformity, the popularity of the Boy Scouts began to wane in the early cold war years. (Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced by Permission of magnum Photos, Inc.)

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most admired figures of the post war era. For many Americans, his asceticism was seen as a corrective for western materialism. (Reproduced by permission of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.)

Jackson Pollock working on a large canvas as his wife looks on. The spontaneity of his techniques established him as one of the leading artists of his era. (Reproduced by permission of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Stony Brook University, State University of New York.)

Charlie Parker (right), preeminent practioner of bebop, on sax “jamming” with Miles Davis (left) and drummer Roy Hayes, circa 1947-1948. (Reproduced by permission of The Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.)

During the late sixties and seventies, a variety of movements challenged the values of middle class America. (Photographer: Diana Davies. Reproduced by permission of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.)

Anti-war protest on the University of Florida campus, 1968. (Reproduced by permission of the Special collection Archives, Smathers Library, University of Florida.)

Worshipers gathering in front of small churches such as this reflected rising rates of church attendance in the 1950’s. (Reproduced by permission of the Mississippi Valley Collection, The University of Memphis.)

Rabbi Josh Loth Leibman speaking to a crowd. Leibman’s “Peace of Mind” was a forerunner to a myriad of self help guides which fused psychology and spirituality. (Reproduced by permission of the Howard Gothlieb Archive Research Center, Boston University.)

Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestselling book “The Power of Positive Thinking” was a leading advocate of pastoral psychology. (Reproduced by permission of The Peale Center for Christian Living.)

During the 1960’s, black militancy had more to do with rejecting the wider culture than seeking acceptance into it. (Reproduced by permission of the Special Collections Archives, Smathers Library, University of Florida.)

Carl Rogers, father of humanistic psychology. (Reproduced by permission of the Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.)

Abraham Maslow, one of the leading figures of the humanistic psychology. His work influenced Betty Friedan. (Reproduced by permission of the AHAP collections at the University of Akron.)

Marty Mann, preeminent advocate of the “disease”  model for addiction, at her desk in the early 1950’s. (Reproduced by permission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.)