America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60's
Laban Carrick Hill
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 031607148X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Laban Hill, author of the acclaimed Harlem Stomp, is back with an in-depth exploration of America in the 1960's and the young people who built a new world around them and changed our society significantly.
Like Harlem Stomp, America Dreaming is an educational and visual look into a time of energy and influence. Covering subjects such as the civil rights movement, hippie culture, black nationalism, and the feminist movement, Hill paints a sprawling picture of life in the '60's and shows how teenagers were on the forefront of the societal changes that occurred during this grand decade.
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financial means to purchase these goods and services and better their lives. The argument concluded that nearly all economic and social issues would be solved because goods and services would be plentiful and affordable, and people would have the income to purchase them. On the surface, this seemed to work exceedingly well. Not only were plenty of homes being built, but other businesses were popping up to fill needs that hadn’t existed before. With everyone so busy enjoying improved lives,
inspired the Black Panther Party, the women used this battle cry to express their feelings that women’s bodies had been colonized by the dominant male culture. Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s liberation theory, these newly radicalized feminists—women’s liberationists or “libbers”—held that they were members of an oppressed sex class made subordinate by systems of male domination. It was this male culture that was at the core of women’s oppression. Unlike liberal feminists, radicals believed that
both now and into the future. Sustainability describes the attempt to coordinate economic, social, institutional, and environmental areas to protect and nourish both the human and nonhuman environment. * * * Despite this real progress, not all African Americans have found a route to the American Dream. Although blacks account for only 12 percent of the U.S. population, 44 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black. About a third of all African-American men are under the
against discrimination in schools, employment, and housing are held through the country; nearly 14,000 persons are arrested in seventy-five Southern cities. Harvard University fires research psychologists Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary for experimenting with LSD. Buddhist monk dies from self-immolation protesting religious persecution in South Vietnam. Charles Schultz’s Happiness Is a Warm Puppy makes the bestseller list. During his swearing-in ceremony, Alabama Governor George Wallace
American sense of purpose, but none of them really provided an answer. They simply raised more questions. The gross national product, measured in constant 1954 dollars, rose from $181.8 billion in 929 to $282.3 billion in 1947 to $439.9 billion in 1960. Spending on personal consumption increased from $128.1 billion in 1929 to $195.6 billion in 1947 to $298.1 billion in 1960. Over the previous decade it seemed everything had changed and the country had not figured out what to make of it.
