Cultural and Social Change in the 1960’s

Cultural and Social stir in the 1960s The 1960s in America was a decade characterized by evolving kindly issues and a rapid growth of many subcultures and culture in general. As their world changed around them and different issues presented themselves, large number looked for areas of exppression in which their voices could be heard. This lead to an explosion in all forms of art and literature. Areas like music changed in such dramatic ways as to rebel against past sounds and styles mend civil rights movements forever altered the way the people of the U. S. iewed race relations. medicine in the 1960s was influenced by many factors that people of the time had to face. Protest for the vietnam war, racial turbulence, and general unease provided a platform for musical creation that resulted in sounds so revolutionary and different than anything ever heard before that thousands of people would gather at single shows. Protest music was very commonplace in this decade because of the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. Acts such as Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan showed opposition to the war in music that became popular generous to define a generation.Woodstock, a massive three day music festival that took place Southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York was attended by nearly half a million people and became an icon that helped to break the music of the 1960s. During the Sixtees, men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were a pct of the pitch-black Civil Rights movement, which advocated equal treatment of African Americans and the disbandment of Jim Crow laws. after the assassinations of both of these important figures, their legacies lived on through such organizations as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.Another civil rights movement of the time was the Hispanic or Chicano movement. The goal of this movement was to empower and give equal rights to Mexican, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanic Americans that were being mistreated throughout the count ry. Movements like these had been seen in decades previous, but arguably with a great deal less success and popularity. The media was also other factor unique at the time to these civil rights movements, and without a distrust played a large role in their effectiveness.