along with the music industry like peas in a pod‚ but never has it had more of a literal meaning than it did in the free loving 1960s. Many of the greatest rock bands and rock artists in history were forged out of the 60s‚ which culminated in 1969 with a festival of peace‚ love and happiness in a time of war. Rock and Roll was a release from war tension in the 1960s. Many "Hippies" protested the Vietnam War. Many of these protests were met with hostile means of breaking up by our government
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mainstream 1960s media‚ justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation‚ education and experimentation under government control of LSD were rational and valid arguments. Sex‚ drugs‚ protests‚ war‚ political upheaval‚ cultural chaos‚ and social rebellion; the many comforts TV dinner eating‚ republican voting‚ church going‚ suburbia conformists tried to escape through conservative ideals‚ town meetings‚ and The Andy Williams Family Hour. National consciousness in 1960s United
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The 1960s was a decade of liberation for music‚ public opinion‚ dance invention‚ and The binds of racism(Blanton). In the 1960s the majority of the Vietnam war was fought‚ the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 also the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. The Vietnam war‚ John F. Kennedy’s‚ and Martin Luther King Jr assassination affected music in the 1960s by causing nation protest such as Woodstock‚ causing social unrest and depression and pushing and enlarging the Black Power
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employment has caused a major setback on the life of minorities. There are two major dilemmas that appear throughout the 1960s and our current time. The first major problem is that education system is always rapidly growing in all its levels‚ which leads to increasingly crowded classes that can’t uphold the required material and faculty to that huge number of students‚ “in the 1960s public school enrollment was 1.9 million students in excess of classroom capacity‚ a situation that persisted throughout
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The Amazing Decade of the 1960s “Ask not what your country can do for you‚; but what you can do for your country-John F. Kennedy”(“John F. Kennedy”). The 1960s was full of excitement‚ but also filled with shock and disappointment. The people and events of the 1960s impacted the later decades to come. The 1960s also had a lot of improved technology. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ John F. Kennedy’s assassination‚ the Supercomputer‚ and unisex fashions were all a big part of the 1960s throughout America. “I
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was waning and the younger generation was revolutionary and argued that this change was looming no matter what. The ethics of drugs‚ sex‚ Rock n’ Roll and community are all issues brought to the attention of America by this group of Hippies in the 1960s and are still in effect in society today‚ nearly fifty years later. Undoubtedly‚ the most defining characteristic of this counterculture was drugs. Timothy Miller explains in Hippies and American Values that dope was used to expand your consciousness
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In the 1960s‚ there was a change in people’s belief and their rights‚ and they were known as the hippies. Today‚ a similar change is occurring that is changing people’s belief‚ and that is the issue of the LGBT. In the 1960s‚ many Americans‚ especially younger ones‚ experience a change in attitude and how to express life. Both men and women began to wear long flowing clothes‚ beads‚ and headbands and often put flowers in their hair‚ which gave them the nickname “flower children”‚ or hippies. These
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Despite the emergence of modern conservatism‚ the 1960s were a very liberal decade. The early years were very optimistic and president Kennedy even lowered taxes. President Johnson admired FDR and modeled his Great Society after the New Deal. One of the most important aspects of the Great Society was the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ which gave African Americans more rights and freedoms by attempting to end discrimination. The rise of modern conservatism appeared in the wake of all the liberal reforms
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popular new pop songs that reflected the views of the American people toward their government and the dislike of the involvement of the Vietnam War. These songs and others played a huge part in influencing the American people in way never before. 1960s art was influenced by the desire to move into a modern age or future which the space race seemed to show. Major works by influential artists like Alexander Calder and Helen Frankenthaler showed a desire to escape from the status quo. Artists wanted
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The Women’s liberation saw much change within the 1960s as women campaigned for equal pay for equal work within the workforce. These women came to be called "Labor Feminists" as they fought for their rights to be acknowledged within the workplace and were active members of unions. Different women’s trade unions worked to secure the rights for women within the work place and they were a critical part of the push that created the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act made it so that women are now legally
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