Anyone know what racism is? Racism was a prolonged issue in the south. As a melting pot of cultures were cultivated in the deep south‚ racism began to rise on the forefront. During the 1960’s racism in the south was part of everyday life‚ racism was so bad Negros were dropping left and right. America is a culture of many races‚ to understand segregation and the level of its severity‚ we have to understand the problems blacks and whited have. Those problems are bitter and unfair treatment of blacks
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universal language‚a form of expression since cavemen were plunking strings on sticks. evolving with The ages with new genres and instruments to further the possibilities ‚ from classical to jazz‚ blues‚rock‚ and of course metal..we came a long way since then and undeniably one of the most crucial time periods of music‚ leading to the music evolution into the music we hear today‚ especially for rock fans like myself‚ is the 1960’s. America during the 1960’s was a time a change‚ it was a time of new ideals
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The nineteen sixties were an extraordinary decade with significant developments in politics‚ music‚ art‚ science‚ and more that influenced life in the United States and the rest of the world for generations to come. Some of the major political events of this decade include the cold war and the space race with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) to put man on the moon‚ the start of the Vietnam War (1965)‚ and the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. On the economic side
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The Energy Crisis of the 1970’s In October of 1973 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) inflicted an oil embargo on the Unites States of America. This was the outcome of our support to the Israeli nation during a time of need. This embargo damaged the U.S. economy so greatly that many were unsure if the country would escape such devastation. In the early 1970’s under President Nixon’s order‚ the United States of America began shipping arms to its ali Israel. At this
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going back as far as the 1970’s. As much as $87‚000‚000‚000 has been spent on incarceration every year. With an increase in the prison population‚ there has been a need to increase the carrying capacity of prisons. That could mean building
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The 60’s was mostly a time of peace but it also seemed like there was never any hope for teens. By today’s standards‚ 60’s teens were less likely to find a good job‚ and that’s mostly because most of them were hippies that dropped out of high school and smoked pot in a VW Bus. However‚ these actions can be justified by the fact hippies often just wanted to live a more peaceful and stress free life than society had to offer them. In the present‚ teens are less rebellious than their hippie counterparts
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Young People Do Matter Have you ever sat down and wondered to yourself‚ what it would be like if schools‚ restrooms‚ restaurants‚ and even public transportation were still segregated today? The majority of people who were born after the 1970’s take for granted how lucky we are as a country and nation to have overcome slavery and the steps against racism we have battled are way through. Slavery was ended when Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and was later ratified in
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the great dangers of drug abuse and cocaine and crack cocaine addiction as doctors Smith and Wesson tried to warn the country. The 1960s drug use were characterized as “youthful rebellion.”It gained the attention of the President Nixon and therefore he established the D.E.A. through executive order and declared the war on drugs shortly thereafter. During the 1970s the D.E.A. focused most of its efforts on other drugs due to an assessment on the extent of drug abuse in the United States and it read
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The 1970’s feminist were bold and brave. Inspiring many Americans‚ both men and woman to promote equality. During this time‚ many feminist were not holding back anymore. The time to brake the traditionalistic views on women was at its high end. Strikes and protest started popping up across the country. Another major factor of the feminist movement was Ms. Magazine in 1972. It was articles talking about issues regarding women’s rights. Politically speaking‚ the court case Roe vs Wade where at the
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The Sexual Revolution of the 1960’s Sex and the 1960’s The 1960’s was a decade of many changes‚ revolutions‚ and experiments including the sexual revolution brought on by the ’sixties generation’. Free love was a popular term coined in the later sixties that meant everyone should love each other‚ sexually and non sexually. This was the first time in history that sex was not something only men could enjoy but women too. What came from this revolution was birth control‚ knowledge of the female
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