White Suburbia In The 1960's

Females across the nation started speaking out against gender inequality. Discrimination in areas such as the workplace, marriage, and government had become overwhelmingly obvious and women started fighting back (Banks 207). This uprising coincided with the Civil Rights Movement. During the same time, African-Americans were standing up against segregation and for racial equality. These two movements went hand-in-hand, as they both had similar motives. Both women and blacks were fighting against oppression in their own country, and they benefitted from each other’s successes. But it wasn’t strictly these two minority groups standing up for themselves during this time, as Mexicans and Native Americans joined the cause too. They also spoke out against inequality by hosting similar protests and demonstrations as the black and women’s rallies. This showed how the 1960’s were a popular time for minority groups to take a stand and make their voices heard, and women were only one of the many groups of people who rallied for change during that time.

The 1950s is considered to be the model decade of America. Families were close, children respected their elders, workers worked hard to provide for their families who grew up in nice neighborhoods, and the economy was booming. The forced conformity, neglect of the poor, and segregation are often overlooked when talking about the decade as they were during the time period. The 1950s were a prodigious time period for family life but not for the individual or societal ethics.

By the inspiring of the author Betty Friedan, many women was awaken , didn’t want to be housewives anymore, they desire to go outside and get freedom. this book gave women a rebirth, it was called “feminism”. At that time, Friedan and the other women build up the National Organization for Women simplified as NOW works on fighting equal right gpr women in each field in society. (textbook page 689) By affecting of it, more and more women went to college to learn knowledge to change their own future. They know that the women need to have equal right as the man in society, many women begin to accept this

With this newly found voice, women intended to make a change. Small changes were no longer enough, they wanted more, and so the women’s rights movement began. They had already had to prove themselves to the men in their lives, and these women were not going to do this again just so society could respect them. Fed up with being portrayed as helpless and useless beings, these women fought hard for equal rights. Double standards, inequalities, and stereotypes were things, with which, women would no longer stand for.

The 1960’s and 1970’s were one of the most important periods of America’s social history. This golden age era was one where economic expansion occurred. Living standards increased, the gross national product doubled, and the ordinary working class saw their wages rise. Suburbanization continued occurring. Towns such as Levittown were being built and more middle-class Americans were buying their own homes. Consumerism fever took hold of everyone. Most homes had a television and other amenities. Fortunately, the period of consensus during the 1950s was overcome. People were no longer fearful of criticizing America because they didn’t want to be branded communists. Not only did Americans simply agree upon individualism, the respect for private property, and the belief in equal opportunity, but they also fought for it. Because the time prior to this was hardly one of expanding opportunity, especially for African Americans, change was taking place. The amount of conformists was decreasing and new ideas were being produced. Ordinary African Americans fought against oppression during the Civil Rights movement to make America a more inclusive place. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X all played major roles in achieving equality for all races. In parallel, ran the women’s movement, where leaders such as Barbara Walters, Phyllis Schlafly, and Betty Friedan advocated for the abandonment of traditional gender roles. Though both movements faced many hardships,

As World War Two came to a close, a new American culture was developing all across the United States. Families were moving away from crowded cities into spacious suburban towns to help create a better life for them during and after the baby boom of the post-war era. Teenagers were starting to become independent by listing to their own music and not wearing the same style of clothing as their parents. Aside from the progress of society that was made during this time period, many people still did not discuss controversial issues such as divorce and sexual relations between young people. While many historians regard the 1950s as a time of true conservatism at its finest, it could really be considered a time of true progression in the

In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

The American “Golden Age” was time of capitalism, economic expansion, stable prices, low unemployment, and rising standards of living (Foner, 738). The main mechanisms of economic growth during the 1950s were residential construction and spending on consumer goods. The shift from living in cities to suburbs created an enormous demand for housing, television sets, home appliances, and cars (Ibid., 739). While this was seemed great in terms of economic growth those living in these areas developed a new set of issues. Suburbanization hardened the racial lines of American life (Ibid., 743).

Beginning in1960, with the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins at the Woolworth lunch counter, the sit-in strategies spread like out of control fire all through the South. These strategies started the most intense period of America's Civil Rights Movement, which topped throughout the following five tumultuous years. The anxious youngsters had been basically right: Direct-activity dissent, particularly on the off chance that it incited brutality by white radicals, was the most profitable methods for social equality movement.

Despite what present media depicts, the 1960s were more than just the typical white, “hippie”-based culture that seems to dominate interpretations of the time period; the revolutions occurring in the third world during this time shaped the ideas that led to counter culture’s success in the United States and other first world countries. The decolonization of many territories from European powerhouses characterized the beginning of the sixties. Due to the third world’s Marxist-like “liberation” from these imposing powers, a similar freeing of the minorities within the U.S. occurred. The colonies in Africa and similar countries could be compared with the minorities in the U.S., due to the oppressed nature of their living circumstances and the

1960’s were widely known as the decade of peace and love when in reality, minorities were

With the overwhelming amount of Levittown houses, the obsession to obtain the perfect American “ideal family” as seen on TV and the unspoken agreement to fear any and all foreign ideas and values, the 1950s were revealed to be a decade of prosperity, conformity and consensus. Just ten years later the atmosphere in America was shockingly different; the 1960s were a decade of turbulence, protest and disillusionment due to the ongoing struggle for civil rights, arising feminism, and the Vietnam War.

The women’s rights movement was a huge turning point for women because they had succeeded in the altering of their status as a group and changing their lives of countless men and women. Gender, Ideology, and Historical Change: Explaining the Women’s Movement was a great chapter because it explained and analyzed the change and causes of the women’s movement. Elaine Tyler May’s essay, Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism and Women’s Liberation and Sixties Radicalism by Alice Echols both gave important but different opinions and ideas about the women’s movement. Also, the primary sources reflect a number of economic, cultural, political, and demographic influences on the women’s movement. This chapter

Women’s rights have evolved over time; beginning with being homemakers and evolving to obtaining professions, acquiring an education, and gaining the right to vote. The movement that created all these revolutionary changes was called the feminist movement. The feminist movement occurred in the twentieth century. Many people are not aware of the purpose of the feminist movement. The movement was political and social and it sought to set up equality for women. Women’s groups in the United States worked together to win women’s suffrage and later to create and support the Equal Rights Amendment. The economic boom between 1917 and the early 1960s brought many American women into the workplace. As women began to join

Throughout the U.S history, women have fought a long journey in order to be treated fairly and equally. When women arrived to this country, they were seen as housewives who only served their families, nothing less and nothing more. As time progressed, many women started to disagree with the idea of being just housewives and believed they were capable of many great things such as having the right to vote, and being able to work outside of home. Eventually, it started to create inequalities of the legal statuses of men and women. Around the mid-nineteenth century, the women’s right movement started bringing controversial