The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam war, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country's self-confidence and sense of purpose. ... However, what they often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era. ... The combination of defiance, revolution, and drugs created a major Hippie era. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ... Hippies, racism, drugs, war, and breaking every rule that had ever been set gave this time a very deserved place in ...

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Thoreau's essay was written while two wars raged in America; the Mexican American war and the war of slavery. ... Thoreau's time period was much more unruly than the civil rights era for African Americans, even though blacks were treated so harshly in southern towns in the late fifties and early sixties. ...

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However, within the combined efforts of The Great Migration of the post war era, the work of organizations on the national level, as well as the effort of everyday African-Americans, an overall push from segregation to civil rights resulted. ... Much of the desire to flee the South and to resist segregation legally and politically resulted from the experience of African-American soldiers in World War I. ... Similar patterns occurred after World War II, when over a million and a half African Americans left the South. ... African-Americans desperately needed organizations, such as the NA...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. ... The Kennedy Era, 1960 - 1963, saw many important events. ... The Kennedy Era came to an abrupt halt with the result of his assassination on November 22, 1963 (Chalmers 25). ... It was during the Johnson Era that blacks gained most of their civil rights. ...

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JFK- wore wrinkled khaki's to Congress PET- wore sandals to house of commons JFK-Cuban Missle Crisis PET- War Measures Act JFK-Civil Rights Movement-pushed equality on the top of nations agenda PET-Official Languages Act JFK- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- inaugural speech PET- "The Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation- JFK-new level of idealism and activism PET- Charter of Rights and Freedoms, JFK-Televised debate, he won- Radio-Nixon won- awesome speaker, good presence PET-Same thing, used the me...

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Even after the Civil War ended, they were still required to fight for educational, social, and political equality. The post-war era brought aberration from the way of life that many had become accustomed to. ... The end of the Civil War, which brought about these Amendments, was the legal end to slavery in the United States, but it would be a long and difficult battle before those rights became a social custom in America. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil War, the U.S had the distinction of being the one of the only countries in the world where slavery was fully legal. Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... Opposition took many forms, from the passive resistance of slaves escaping to the freedom on the Underground Railroad to African Americans participation in the ...

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He got his first taste of prison life after joining the Army and getting sent to Germany in the years after World War II. ... Martin Luther King Jr., kill the most influential civil rights leader of the era and evade an international manhunt for more than two months, only to be busted by Scotland Yard going through a customs checkpoint he wasn't supposed to be at. ... Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, and second, was the assassination the result of a conspiracy to silence the leader of America's non-violent civil rights and anti-war movement? ...

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Gaines, many of the characters opinions and actions toward Philip Martin and the civil rights movement were influenced by the era in which they lived and more specifically by the recent death of King. ... While white liberals support the black power movement and it's resistance to the Vietnam war, most white people felt discouraged by separatist messages of black power and rage against the system. ...

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He believed that this "war" of race should be fought with strong voices and determination. ... I feel that both men made good points in their speeches and directly pointed out what they felt should be done, but overall I am just grateful for people that actually took the time out to speak against the segregation era. ...

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After the Civil War and the Emancipation Declaration which abolished slavery, everything at first seemed to change. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... Like his father he became a "social activist pastor" joining the NAACP and the Alabama Council on Human Relations, and also became very popular in the black community because of his skills. go to top The Civil Rights Movement After decades of being treated as inferior human beings who were confronted daily with discrimination the decision of the US Supreme Court that segregation in pu...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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Also we shall look at his famous "I Have A Dream" speech held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which along with Winston Churchill's "We Shall Never Surrender" speech during World War II, would become one of the most prominent speeches of the 20th century. ... It was from here that Martin Luther King, Jr, would gradually shed the position of quiet observer and become the leader of a people who were in desperate need of someone who could lead them together into a new era of equal opportunity and equal rights. ...

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