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 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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Challenges of Homosexuals in the 1960’s Abstract Every day homosexuals face challenges that heterosexuals do not. These challenges include people giving them looks when they are walking down the street while holding hands with a person of the same sex. They also face challenges in being accepted as a true family‚ this is because in many states same sex marriage is deemed illegal. Over the decades people have become more adjusted to homosexuals in society. In the movie “If Walls Could Talk
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little if nothing to stop the racism that was given towards blacks or any other minority. Until the late 1950’s not many presidents or Congressman had tried to legislate civil rights laws. The Civil Rights struggle that heated up to its climax in the 1960’s was neither a simple nor wanted task by any means. Many Presidents tried taking on the civil rights movement starting with Harry S. Truman. Truman was not for racial equality among blacks and often said so‚ but he wanted fairness and equality before
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Our culture has been changed so much because of television. The 1960s were changed by the genres that made television popular‚ what the people liked about it so much‚ and how Tv became a booming buisness. Tv genres are the deciding choice of if people watch television. Westerns were a big part of the early sixties‚ but did not survive through the end (nypl.org). Another big show that made its debut is Sesame Street (Thepeoplehistory 1960s). These shows are proof of how what people watched on tv affected
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The Misperception of Women in the Postwar Era In the years between 1945 and 1960‚ modern history’s typical view of American women is that of a subordinated‚ suppressed and acquiescent group struggling to obtain the ideas of domesticity and conservatism portrayed by popular culture. Many assumptions are made about changing gender roles and their affects upon women as a whole during this period. To us‚ women in the postwar era are most easily and commonly represented by the image of the ideal wife
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Imagine that you are an African American living in the south during the 1960’s. During this time segregation would have been a daily problem for you. Segregation is when people are separated based on things like gender‚ race‚ or skin color. In the United States‚ from the end of the Civil War until 1964‚ people were separated by race. For example‚ white and black people could not attend the same schools‚ go to the same pools‚ movie theaters‚ or restaurants together and they could not use the same
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The Election of 1960 The United States presidential election of 1960‚ also known as the first modern election‚ made a significant mark in history. The election was held during a very important time‚ the Civil Rights Movement. This election John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ Democratic presidential candidate‚ changed the way candidates campaigned. Kennedy’s campaigning skills outshined Nixon’s. He used every type of media coverage to get the word out that he was running. Also‚ Joe Kennedy‚ John F. Kennedy’s
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American citizens with disabilities began to join forces in the 1960’s. They all saw the same problem; disabled people were not treated equally. Disabled and non-disabled people nationwide began to band together for the common cause demanding equal treatment‚ equal access‚ and equal opportunity for all. Although this movement began in the 1960’s‚ nothing happened until 1990. In 1990‚ the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expanded the freedoms and hopes of individuals with impairments through
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As the women remain gathered‚ in N’Diayene‚ the strike against the French management‚ has evolved into a struggle for rights‚ not just for men‚ but for society as a whole. It is the women whom become the This particular passage exemplifies the women’s influence not only in the struggle for equality but an uprising for women. Though many of these women are old‚ they still posses the strength and the will to fight and are relentless. The women are also very resourceful and very tactful as the
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