1960s

During the 1960’s, young Americans challenged conventional lifestyles. These protestors were called “the new left”. They protested materialism and consumerism and the much looked for success that drove American society. They felt compelled to explore alternative lifestyles including traditions surrounding sex and marriage. They were determined that there was deeper meaning to life, and wanted to try anything to make it happen - even illicit drugs could be justified with their thought process.…

Right Movement, Rebellion Against Family Values, and The Feminist Movement was an important decade for both white and african-american history in time. The Civil rights Movement had several aspects . It was a decade to fight for rights. Then, in “1960-70’s Civil Rights Movement” the author states, “there was many riots, shootings, bombings, and protest”. Shootings during the sixties happened everywhere. According, to Civil Rights Martyrs, Lamar Smith another ordinary guy, was shot in front…

the early 1960’s that helped shape the music business and carries on today would be the American Bandstand/Dance Craze. The American Bandstand of the 1960’s introduced new televisions shows geared towards teens, allowing them to enjoy new hit records while incorporating dance, adding another form of entertainment other than just the radio (Covach & Flory, 2015, p. 116). This is where the popularity of dance crazes enjoyed by America’s youth all began. Although I did not grow up in the 1960’s, I…

Imagine you’re a girl in Iraq with big dreams. You’ve got a plan for your life: get through high school, go to college, then have a successful career. But what happens if you can’t even finish high school because your parents can’t afford it? What do you do when you are forced into marriage just for the money? Unfortunately, this happens to be reality for many girls and women in Iraq. The treatment of women in society in Iraq differs from the treatment of women in society in the US in the sense…

graduates than women in the 1960s. More colleges started to accept female students, including the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, which was in fact the last college willing to accept women as students. With this increase and hopeful outcome of education, women’s participation in the labor force increased to 32%, 30% of those women being married. Married women now had more responsibility which was made possible because child care was newly available. Before the 1960s, women were…

The social and political unrest of the Civil Rights movement characterized and defined the decade of the 1960s. From Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963, to the televised police assaults on blacks in Birmingham, Alabama, with police dogs and water hoses, to the bombing of a black Birmingham church that killed four young girls, to the murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi, the decade became a testament to the social, political and economic realities of violent and…

School Rules In The 1960’s Changed What Was Allowed To Be Worn And That Was A Good Idea To Change Some Of These Rules.It will be about the girls school dress code in the 60s. About the boys school dress codes in the 60s. About school punishments in the 60s. In the 60’s the school dress code rules were different then they are now in the 60s the school dress code rules were stricter than they are now days. My claim is true because in the 60s school rules were different then they are now. While…

It is true that a liberal consensus dominated American political life from the middle of the 1930s through the last years of the 1960s. The beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, could explain the beginning of the liberal consensus. That is due to the growth in anti-communism. It could also be due to the desire for capitalism. The idea that people wouldn’t be homeless or go hungry. Also, if the President claimed that certain programs or actions would help stop…

telling their audiences that their not the only ones going through the same situation and even can provide hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. (3) Soul and soul artists had a positive effect on the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Musically, soul could be considered as the first (prominently) black style that showed the positive side of African Americans. For example, the Caucasian view of African Americans (at least up to this time) were generally that of a servant or as…

The Sit-In Movement Slavery and inequality was a major issue prior to the 1960’s, but when the sit-in movement started things began to change. This was not a quick and easy change however; many lives were lost in what were supposed to be non-violent movements employed by Martin Luther King Jr. Many African Americans were taking a stand, or shall I say “sit” for their rights. In the other hand many African Americans were avoiding any participation in the movements due to the possible…