60’s Impact on Fashion
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind“ – Neil Armstrong . One of the greatest events that happened in the 60’s was the landing on the moon. How did this affect the 60’s fashion you ask? Keep reading to find out.
The 60’s included many events that impacted America as a whole. Most popularly ran by John F. Kennedy and Nixon. The 60’s underwent things such as the Vietnam War, America landing on the moon, Martin Luther King Jr. breakout, and more. With racism arguably at its peak just 5 decades ago, it shows we have come a long way now having an African American President. Slaves were being shipped to America for work as if they were animals. The “KKK (Ku Klux Klan), a secret society of white southerners …show more content…
He helped lead riots and other actions for rebellion. Sadly, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a white man in the late 60’s. Although the 60’s had some rough times, we did create a “Television War (‘Daily Life’)” Finally in 1965; Americans can watch the war for the first time in history. However, the time it appeared on T.V was not until days or weeks before they could watch it. This is because America went through the videos and held back the bad news. Eventually the television crew would start going to the war scene with them. This meant that networks were supplying the footage and that the government now had no control over what Americans saw. This lead to a resistance for peace because Americans didn’t like what they saw. Americans saw things such as “ setting fire to the straw roofs with cigarette lighters as villagers stood by in tears begging them to stop” (‘Daily Life’). So I guess that didn’t help the rough times. A good thing that came from the 60’s was going to the moon and being the first ones to do it. A
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind“ – Neil Armstrong . One of the greatest events that happened in the 60’s was the landing on the moon. How did this affect the 60’s fashion you ask? Keep reading to find out.
The 60’s included many events that impacted America as a whole. Most popularly ran by John F. Kennedy and Nixon. The 60’s underwent things such as the Vietnam War, America landing on the moon, Martin Luther King Jr. breakout, and more. With racism arguably at its peak just 5 decades ago, it shows we have come a long way now having an African American President. Slaves were being shipped to America for work as if they were animals. The “KKK (Ku Klux Klan), a secret society of white southerners …show more content…
He helped lead riots and other actions for rebellion. Sadly, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a white man in the late 60’s. Although the 60’s had some rough times, we did create a “Television War (‘Daily Life’)” Finally in 1965; Americans can watch the war for the first time in history. However, the time it appeared on T.V was not until days or weeks before they could watch it. This is because America went through the videos and held back the bad news. Eventually the television crew would start going to the war scene with them. This meant that networks were supplying the footage and that the government now had no control over what Americans saw. This lead to a resistance for peace because Americans didn’t like what they saw. Americans saw things such as “ setting fire to the straw roofs with cigarette lighters as villagers stood by in tears begging them to stop” (‘Daily Life’). So I guess that didn’t help the rough times. A good thing that came from the 60’s was going to the moon and being the first ones to do it. A