Counterculture Movement In The 1960s

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The counterculture movement in 1960s influenced people to go against the norm of mainstream society. This movement changed people’s political, race and morality views. The counterculture movement brought along the Anti-war Movement against Vietnam and also some different views about the Civil Rights Movement. The Vietnam War was said to be fought to stop the spread of Communism, although they were fighting for a good cause America had very little support in their fight. The vast number of Americans disagreeing with troops being sent to Vietnam, this led to the Anti-war Movement. This movement was the largest protest movement in the history of the US. These protest at first started smaller, just on college campuses until Students for a Democratic …show more content…

A black woman who would not give up her seat on the bus because she felt that she did not have to she was arrested and her arrest led to a bus boycott. The Civil Rights Movement was also a big part of the counterculture. Racism was a big problem and the injustice of African Americans. Malcolm X mentioned in his speech Not Just an American Problem but a World Problem that “the worst form of evil is the evil that’s based upon judging a man because of the color of his skin…” The Counterculture art apart of this movement were just true images telling the story the right way. One painting by Norman Rockwell called “Negro in the Suburbs”, showed African American children moving into a white neighborhood while white children stare in awe. Segregation was a big problem then, “separate but equal” was into play but nothing was really equal. Everything the whites could use was better. Segregation was a big problem and a subject of many of the protest the youth rebelled against the segregation and the social injustice of the African Americans. Some of the important people during the Civil Rights Movement were, Malcolm X who actually influenced the Black Panther Party to come about and Martin Luther King. Music also tied into the Civil RIghts Movement. Bob Dylan, the most influential writer of the counterculture period, wrote the best songs about what was going on in the world around him. He, too, was against the prejudice and wrong doings being done to the African

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