1970’s Culture and Values What if we lived in a world without Star Wars? Happy Days? Equal Rights? The 70’s were responsible for the atmosphere that these productions created. Americans in the 1970’s focused on the newest pop culture, pushes for equality, and fresh new beliefs that changed their views on feminism and black culture. Between baseball, music, movies, and slang, Americans in the 1970’s had many choices on how to spend their free time. A new Sci-fi universe opened with the release of Star Wars: a New Hope, Jaws, King Kong, and The Exorcist. While out on home plate in 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth on the all time list. Closer to home, people watched on TV as the first test tube baby named Louise
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They decided to take their movement to the next level by showing the US Congress their ERA, or Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment demanded equal pay for women, equal chance for jobs, and equal treatment on and away from the job. When Congress agreed to vote on it conservative activists moved to protest against it. Through vigorous disapproval they managed to defeat the amendment and strike a crippling blow to feminists. While devastated, feminists still refused to back down simultaneously starting to form their own small organizations and movements to install the same fire that they had before the ERA (“The 1970s”). While the fight for women continued, the 70’s contained a new African American mindset. Black people stopped accepting their current place in society of “not being as good as whites,” and began to believe that they were born beautiful. For the first time in American history, they embraced their heritage, and contributed to art, dance, fashion, and entertainment in their own way. Black people acquired a caring attitude when it came to the people who lived in their communities. They lifted each other up, considered themselves naturally good looking, and believed they could impress anyone without changing their appearance (“The 70's Black Generation vs Today's Black
They decided to take their movement to the next level by showing the US Congress their ERA, or Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment demanded equal pay for women, equal chance for jobs, and equal treatment on and away from the job. When Congress agreed to vote on it conservative activists moved to protest against it. Through vigorous disapproval they managed to defeat the amendment and strike a crippling blow to feminists. While devastated, feminists still refused to back down simultaneously starting to form their own small organizations and movements to install the same fire that they had before the ERA (“The 1970s”). While the fight for women continued, the 70’s contained a new African American mindset. Black people stopped accepting their current place in society of “not being as good as whites,” and began to believe that they were born beautiful. For the first time in American history, they embraced their heritage, and contributed to art, dance, fashion, and entertainment in their own way. Black people acquired a caring attitude when it came to the people who lived in their communities. They lifted each other up, considered themselves naturally good looking, and believed they could impress anyone without changing their appearance (“The 70's Black Generation vs Today's Black