1960

The 1960s was a decade of rapid transformation in America as women collectively joined together to fight and end gender inequality. The campaign to end discrimination based on sex focussed on enhancing a woman’s position in society and sought to ensure that women were no longer denied basic human rights because of their sex. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was established at the annual conference of the State Commissions on Status of Women in 1966 and hoped to provide women with more…

than 400,000 young people trooped to the Woodstock music festival in upstate New York, a harmonious three days that seemed to represent the best of the peace-and-love generation” (History.com). Music was not the only new development going on in the 1960’s. The automotive industry saw something entirely new: performance cars. Before this, as previously mentioned, cars were basic. The most notable performance cars in the United States were known as Muscle Cars. Muscle cars are defined as a…

1960 ."Yesterday" Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly. Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say. I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday. Yesterday love was such an easy game to play. Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Why she had to go, I don't know, she…

The 1960s brought a new character into play, the hippie generation changed America's future generations with the different lifestyle they lived in. The hippie movement started out in the early 60s and had brought another war. The movement started out on the east coast and ended up on the west coast in California to get away from the control of parents who wouldn't let their teenagers express themselves. Hippies were known for breaking boundaries and testing limits.The hippie movement had…

The authors of the Document 1 and Document 2 believes it is necessary to strictly define Americans due to the fact that despite having similarity with Europe, America itself is vast different from Europe. America was based on the democratic principles, where every person is to be treated with equal respect and will not be discriminated on the basis of race, color, religion and origin. The authors of the first document believe that American has to defined as one unite nation despite having…

In the 1960’s there was a huge controversy between white clergymen and Martin Luther King Jr. Birmingham, Alabama was very racially divided in 1963. Both individuals and court systems treated Negros unfairly, and segregation was a part of everyday life. Nancy V. Wood, author of the book Essentials of Argument, wrote that “black people were only allowed to sit in certain parts of buses and restaurants… [and] were not allowed in white churches, schools, or various other public places” (2011, p.…

The experiences of female skinheads in the 1980s Academic analysis of the UK skinhead subculture focusses on males, through the paradigm of class (Hebdige 1979, Mungham 1976, Jefferson, 1979, Cohen 2011, Cashmore 1984, Clarke 1975). Such an approach overlooks female participation in subcultures. McRobbie (2000) addresses female invisibility in her qualitative research, focussing on women in separate locations to males, rather than occupying the same spaces. This research will resituate a female…

The 1960’s marked the beginning of great gains in the advancement of women’s rights. And yet, for all the gains of the 1960’s, many gains were still to come, and some gains were not as great as would have been hoped. Women still struggle against discrimination and for reproductive rights. This paper examines the many changes in women’s rights from the 1960’s and the 2020’s. The 1960’s saw many gains in women’s rights. The roles of women are gradually changing. More women found themselves in…

I chose to write my essay answering question number five, "Explain how rock music in the 1960s was egalitatian, eclectic, and real?". As a Fashion Merchandising major, when I think of a certain era, I often think of the clothing or popular culture during that period. What sticks out to me about the 1960s is the music, the widely-accepted drug use, and the colorful, psychedelic clothing. The music that sticks out to me the most during this time is from The Beatles and Beach Boys. To be eclectic…

Yet this did not remain unchallenged. Throughout the period, socialists remained a vocal minority on prostitution which they viewed as a result of a morally corrupt capitalist society, adapting the figure of the ‘prostitute’ to their ideological perspective; she was a victim of middle class seduction. Keir Hardie expressed his outrage at the class component of disciplining ‘prostitutes’, that the ‘gentlemen’ receive the privilege of anonymity whilst reformed ‘prostitutes’ are outed and ‘shunned…