DECADE OF DREAMS..1960-1969.. COMES TRUE

Look at todays women: they do all the things a man does. She goes to work, she votes, she have all the rights a man have. Well, they have to say a word of gratitude to those in the 1960s. Look at todays extremely COOL rock bands: May be if it wasn't for the TREMENDOUS hit of the Beatles, we would be still stuck with slow "romantic" music. I mean JUST look at the people today. The world is colorblind. Everyone is treated the same. Now, who do we say thanks for that? MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. ofcourse! The 1960s is the birth to the Hippie Era, the first Barbie Doll..and the list goes on. This period, 1960-1969 was known as the period of young people. Young people didn't want to be repetitive of their previous generations, they wanted change. And change, was what they got.

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Important Events of the Decade

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The civil rights movements was partly in the decade of 1960-1969. This movement included getting voting rights, general rights and just EQUALNESS to the blacks (mostly in the south) to whites. Involving lots of marching, gathering of blacks, and determined acts of many black leaders, like Martin Luther King Jr., the blacks finally got the rights they deserved.

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This was also the decade for WOMEN!! Since the year 1961, President John F. Kennedy started making females EQUAL to males. Eleanor Roosevelt played a big part in letting females have same rights as all men. "The Feminine Mystique" was a famous book about female rights at that time written by Betty Friedan and published in 1963. This book fiercely states that females can do MORE than housework and producing children. The next year, there was a Civil Rights passed saying that all jobs are to be for BOTH sex. Later on, females like Margaret Chase Smith, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Shirley Chisholm, became just few of the women that became leaders in their country.

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In 1966, MAO ZHE DONG started the cultural revolution. This was when he moved urban kids into less urbanized places to work. It involved a lot of killings of intellectuals, closing of schools and burning of books which he felt shouldn't be widely read. He organized a group called the Red Guard that consist largely of students. This movement which gradually slowing down to its stop when his place as the leader of the group was taken over in 1969. The cultural revolution dropped the economic and industrial part of China greately. This period also was the massive increase of people in China for his quote was something like, "The more the people, the more powerful we are", so then people were have 5 or more children no matter how poor they were.

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This decade was the climax for the "Hippie Era". It started with a movement called the youth movement where most of the members are white teenagers and young adults around 15~25. The nature of Hippie is that they didn't like nuclear weapon and the Vietnam War, while are for sexual liberation, usually vegetarian. They used music as a way to express feelings and their ideas or thought. They loved peace, love and ofcourse FREEDOM. The Beatles were also somewhat influenced by the Hippie Era.

Important PEOPLE of this Decade
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The civil rights movement started with Martin Luther King in the 1960s. It went on its climax on August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther King gave his extremely famous speech, "I have a Dream" in Lincoln Memorial. Because of his strong desire to win rights for the blacks, he was arrested in Selma, Alabama on February 1965. In 1968, he was killed in Memphis by a guy in the name of James Earl Ray. A memorial was made in 1968 in the King Centre for him, letting us remember that WITHOUT him..the blacks wouldn't have had a fair life.



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The Beatles have the MOST POWERFUL HIT to this decade on music. there were 4 memebers in this pop band all from Liverpool in England: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey. The influence that the BEATLES had in this specific decade was known as the BEATLEMANIA! The Beatles released their first album in U.S. on February 7, 1964


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He was the leader of China and the chairman of the communist party. It was his last years of ruling that he started the cultural revolution. The reason was he was worried that outside influence would change China to what's more like the ideas of socialism like he had seen happen to Russia. He was stubborn to keep china the way it is, with communism. During the cultural revolution, intellectuals are not only verbally insulted but also physically attacked. Chinese respects Mao greately even today. But if there's one thing they feel he had done wrong, it was the Cultural Revolution.

TECHNOLOGY: DISCOVERIES
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Birth control pills became vacant and used greatly in the year 1967. In the same year, abortion became legal in many places. This revolution showed the world that women indeed are getting their rights. This is because once a women is allowed to have a choice between having babies or not, it proves that women have same rights on the baby as the men.

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During heart surgery, Dr. Michael DeBakey used an artificial heart so it could temporally take over the functions of the heart in the year 1963 and the human managed to live for 4 days!! The first heart transplant was on 1967

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John H. Glenn, Jr. was the FIRST human to rotate the earth in 1962. He did it in 4 hours and 55 minutes. THAT'S FAST. I think.
Later in the year1969, Neil Armstrong opened a new field of study as he took his premier step on the MOON.

INTERESTING FASHION AND FADS
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Barbie Dolls that were first sighted in 1959 became and fad in the sixties. Barbie Dolls with different names like G.I.Joe were models of boys for the boys. They even had a doll called the troll or Dammit doll for GOOD LUCK.

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This decade had a fashion that was that blacks, both females and males wear afro head.

1969 was also the beginning of what later became known as the gay rights movements.

To wrap it up, I just have a tiny comment. This is a lesson, taught by people those brilliant people in this decade. This is a lesson that took a decade to tell. They are telling us to do what we thinks is RIGHT. I mean, really, they didn't HAVE to get rights for themselves. They didn't HAVE to SPEAK for themselves. They didn't HAVE to have their UNIQUENESS in FASHION or MUSIC. They didn't HAVE to ANYTHING. Yet, they did. THey did it for themselves. Their decade. And for the future. For us.

I give my thanks to EVERYONE, in the decade of 1960-1969 for GIVING ME a life of EQUALNESS, of PEACE, and HAPPINESS.

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