What happened: The 1960s

When we think of the 60's decade we mostly think about hippies, peace, love, and the death of Kennedy. I can bet when this decade started most of the people thought it was going to be the change of an era where discrimination was going to disappear and was going to stop. Well, sad to disappoint you guys but it was nothing like that. Here I am to comment how the 1960s were in the USA.

We found discrimination everywhere in society in this decade. Discrimination coming from race to gender and even political believes. Even though these problems existed in the decades past this one, they performed an important part in the 1960s, since people created movements to go against these wrongful things. 

From the beginning of the 1960s, there was the Vietnam War in process and, as we know, the United States decided to interfere. This cause many people doubt were the government stands, since the US had nothing to do with that war and, still, they were sending a big number of troops to fight in a war that wasn’t even theirs. And this means killing unnecessary and providing violence instead of suggesting peace. It’s obvious the government did not like that and went against the peace activists that were trying to bring the troops home and stop the war. Also, as always, women were being discriminated, since people didn’t tend to believe that women have equal rights and are supposed to be housewives, or stand behind a man. Women were not expected to have a voice and be independent. The last, but not least important, type of discrimination I’ll be talking about is racial. Did you know that after years of being banned, the KKK surged back (supposedly secretly) in the 1960s? I think this is enough to say how black people were still being discriminated, and black people decided to continue the civil right movement since they considered it was unfair to them, which it was.

Ok, so I know it’s not much but there is a really brief summary of types of discrimination so in my next post you can know what I am talking about when I adapt what I’ve talked about into a mini series called “The 60’s”.

See you in the next post!