World War II‚ African Americans demanded changes in American society. African Americans fought in World War II for their country‚ but they returned home to discrimination and inequality. In the late 1940s and 50s American society started to overturn some official discrimination against African Americans. In 1947‚ Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball (891) and in 1948‚ Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. In 1954‚ the Plessey decision of 1896‚ which created two societies‚ one for
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Hippies The Hippie Generation‚ was in the 1960s and 1970s. They embraced peace‚ love and community. They were opposed to middle class values‚ and the teachings of previous generations. The hippie movement embraced free love‚ and the beginning of the sexual revolution. The Beat Generation lead to the Hippie movement. The Beat movement was a bohemian counter-culture‚ and included experimentation with drugs and sexual liberties. The Beat writers began in New York‚ but most with the movement moved
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The welfare rights movement in the 1960s made basic income support available to more people than ever before. The decade prior to 1964 set the stage for the expansion of the pool of eligible individuals‚ but the explosion in magnitude of aid given during the movement itself allowed for substantial aid to reach those who were neediest. This substantive aid is what constitutes actual income support‚ rather than scant cash thrown at problem populations. Poor Blacks finally received the full aid they
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During the 1950s and 1960s‚ many African Americans were treated with discrimination and racial segregation due to the “Jim Crow” Laws which segregated blacks from being at certain places with white people (Civil Rights Movement). This inequality angered many African Americans as they began to protest for their civil rights and equality‚ turning it into the Civil Rights Movement. The fight for freedom was a long and rough journey‚ but they were able to put an end to segregation in public places and
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The 1970’s: An Age of Turmoil and Triumph Throughout history‚ from Ancient Greece to modern day America‚ humans have always strived for a better world and what it could bring. Whether it be advancements in medicine or the principle of relativity‚ people all across space and time have been fascinated by what they could accomplish or who they could deceive and control. The human race is full of examples of individuals who have gone above and beyond imagination and others who have faltered horribly
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You not only heard the music‚ you could see it and feel it as well. With psychedelic music of bands like the Grateful Dead it was no surprise that people were usually stoned when they listened to the music. If you werent under the influence of some kind of drug‚ (100) the musical experience was different. Things stayed the same. Where if you were on drugs the music came alive‚ all around you was an amazing blur or music and color. (Madine)The drugs of the sixties included the psychedelic LSD and acid
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AFFECTIVE KEY CHARACTERISTICS from Christian Schubart’s Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806) C Major Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence‚ simplicity‚ na�vety‚ children’s talk. C Minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing‚ longing‚ sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key. Db Major A leering key‚ degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh‚ but it can smile; it cannot howl‚ but it can at least grimace its
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The 1960s saw unrest‚ antiwar dissents‚ and a social revolution. African American youth challenged taking after triumphs in the courts in regards to social liberties with road dissents driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and additionally the NAACP. Dr. King skillfully utilized the media to record examples of ruthlessness against peaceful African American dissidents to pull at the still‚ small voice of people in general. Activism took on effective political change when there were large gatherings
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The story I chose to analyze is by Hunter S. Thompson‚ 1970: The Kentucky Debry is Decadent and Depraved. The story begins with the author‚ as the main character‚ describing the days of how he and Ralph Steadman‚ travelled from England to make photos of the drunken riot that was predicted to happen. This riot was predicted to be so massive that even the FBI was involved. In fact‚ "they were looking for “that special face‚” a drunken person with a good mix of booze‚ failed dreams‚ and a terminal
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Immigrants to the cities have‚ as groups‚ tended to occupy the lowest social and economic level.During the last thirty years efforts to combat racial discrimination have figured prominently in our history. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s won the passage of important legislation; decisions of the Supreme Court and regulations of federal agencies have contributed greatly to fighting discrimination‚ yet it is obvious that a great deal more needs to be done.
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