events on people can be seen in popular culture. It not only reflected the thoughts and feelings of many but helped shape how they responded to these changes and conflicts. During each decade popular culture played a significant part in motivating large numbers of people to act for and achieve change. Popular culture in the 1960’s‚ e.g. Sex‚ Drugs‚ Rock and Roll‚ helps historians understand how changes reflected and influenced the thoughts of that time. Youths began to think that taking drugs and having
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The Warren Court The 1960’s was an evolution of change in American history. When Earl Warren became Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1953 it made the most dramatic changes and held a far more liberal view than any other Supreme Court before. Some of its most important rulings were on African-American civil liberties. The Supreme Court changed American law on segregation in schools‚ criminal procedure‚ and privacy rights. Before the Warren Court the American law treated blacks as second class citizens
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materials" - Paco Rabanne 1966. The 1960’s was a decade of great change‚ inviting new ideas and fashion trends which still have a noticeable influence today. The beginning of the era showed fashion aimed at a wealthy mature audience‚ quality of material was important and mainly natural fabrics were used‚ and trends were largely dictated by high profile designers‚ and the price often reflected the work gone into producing these. However throughout the 1960’s style influence evolved and began to be
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Coping with this change will be one of the greatest challenges of the coming decades. The habitat for women workers vary over the years of the 1960’s and now. Through the struggle of open availability to the nonexistence salaries and wages. The women struggled because of their lack of knowledge determination and man will. Years and decades later the women have the strongest advantage in the workforce because of their talent and inner strength and perseverance without the help of any man. The women’s
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gaining equal rights for all people. Until this movement was passed in the 1960’s‚ discrimination of African Americans was suggested. Africans Americans had to fight in wars to defend America. When they came home‚ they were treated poorly. The Civil Rights Movement helped with this problem. Racial Discrimination was not totally wiped out because of the Civil Rights Movement. Although‚ there is still racism in America today‚ the movement made sure that there are consequences to those who still
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My topic for this project was Racial Relations in the 1960’s. Of course‚ as most of us know‚ the 1960’s was not the best time for African Americans. Young African American’s were getting frustrated by the long wait times for legal cases and were ready for justice. They were ready to stand up and make a change in the constant‚ broken justice system for their community. Starting in February of 1960‚ they organized sit-ins‚ and the idea spread all across the south. Along with sit-ins‚ people supporting
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Communism is political problem which involves people removing class distinctions. In America‚ class distinctions are very important and well needed because it protects us to a certain instinct. Some people do not know did communism really pose a domestic threat to America. This idea is neutral because the communist has contradicting ideas and the spying communist were doing. This prove that communism is a bad thing for America. The conflicts on the communist war proved ideas contradicted each other
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Robert Vahrenhold SS310: Exploring the 1960’s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Prof. William Rookstoolii Cold War Assignment During the 1960’s‚ one of the most thing that the American government and the American people had to face was the Cold War. People who grew up during the 1950’s‚ 60’s‚ and 70’s would have talked about the war like it was an everyday thing. But‚ as the years and decades have gone by people have might have a different option and some might not even know or remember what
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Prejudice: 1950’s and 60’s The story of African Americans dealing with racism and oppression during the 1950’s and 60’s is not a story unheard by anyone. It is a common story that we hear early in life. It was a real life event that many African Americans had to deal with for many years‚ and still do today. This was and is no way for anyone to live‚ and African Americans knew it was time for them to be treated like human beings. Many events led up to the Civil Rights movement‚ including the story
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Four young Englishmen added a word to the worlds vocabulary in the 1960s. A word that became synonymous with the 1960s‚ especially with the music of that time that word was of course the Beatles the Beatles became the most famous popular music group of the twentieth century and have held the loyalty of many fans into the present century The Beatles were popular in Liverpool England and in Hamburg Germany before they came to America on tour and became world famous Liverpool and Hamburg loved the four
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