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![]() ![]() In 1969, half a million hipsters and fellow travelers converged upon a farm in upstate New York in 1969 to witness rock ‘n’ roll deliver its own proclamation of emancipation at a concert called Woodstock. The final years of the decade, however, featured a culture far more rebellious than the clean-cut teen idols from Liverpool. ![]() Offering a middle-class version of the rebellious posturing of the previous generation, The Beatles soon embodied the essence of suburban youth culture in the mid-1960s. Beneath the façade of conformity and contentedness, the youths of the early 1960s experimented with similar styles of music, literature, and drugs the beatniks had embraced in the previous decade.Īlthough few beatniks would have appreciated the tribute, 1960 was also the year that a British rock band called themselves The Beatles and began their meteoric rise. While popular culture extolled the virtues of suburban life, a new generation of restless suburban youths continued to embrace counterculture modes of expression. Leading sitcom families in 1950s programs such as I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners were apartment dwellers, but by the 1960s, Americans gathered to watch the daily lives of suburban families in Leave it to Beaver and similar programs. Popular culture soon reflected the movement from the city to the suburbs. Explain what King meant, and summarize LBJ’s decision between 19 to escalate the war he inherited from Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. Martin Luther King said that LBJ’s Great Society was derailed by his escalation of the Vietnam War.Summarize the efforts by African Americans to challenge disenfranchisement in the mid-1960s. Given the fact that the Fifteenth Amendment banned racial discrimination at the polls, explain the need for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.Explain the goals of the LBJ’s Great Society, and evaluate his effectiveness in combating racial injustice and poverty. ![]()
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