{"id":1262,"date":"2017-07-11T03:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-images-the-1960s\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:28:34","slug":"primary-source-images-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-images-the-1960s\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source Images: The 1960s","rendered":"Primary Source Images: The 1960s"},"content":{"raw":"Perhaps no decade is so immortalized in American memory as the 1960s. Couched in the colorful rhetoric of peace and love, complemented by stirring images of the civil rights movement, and fondly remembered for its music, art, and activism, for many the decade brought hopes for a more inclusive, forward-thinking nation. But the decade was also plagued by strife, tragedy, and chaos. It was the decade of the Vietnam War, of inner-city riots, and assassinations that seemed to symbolize the crushing\u00a0of a new generation\u2019s idealism. A decade of struggle and disillusionment rocked\u00a0by social, cultural, and political upheaval, the 1960s are remembered because so much changed, and because so much did not. The following sources offer insight into the decade\u2019s impactful\u00a0history.\r\n

Selma March (1965)<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1081\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"Protestors, From Selma to Montgomery, 1965. Library of Congress.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nCivil rights activists protested against the injustice of segregation in a variety of ways. Here, in 1965, marchers, some carrying American flags, march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to champion African American voting rights.\r\n

LBJ and Civil Rights Leaders (1964)<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1082\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"LBJ Photograph, January 18, 1964. Wikimedia.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAs civil rights demonstrations rocked the American South, civil rights legislation made its way through Washington D.C. Here, President Lyndon B. Johnson sits with civil rights leaders in the White House.<\/em>\r\n

Women\u2019s Liberation March 1970<\/h2>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1000\"]\"Women<\/a> Warren K. Leff;er, Women\u2019s Liberation March from Farrugut Square to Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. 1970. Via Library of Congress.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAmerican popular feminism accelerated throughout the 1960s. The slogan\u00a0\u201cWomen\u2019s Liberation\u201d accompanied a growing women\u2019s movement but also alarmed conservative Americans. In this 1970 photograph, women march in Washington D.C. carrying signs reading, \u201cWomen Demand Equality,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a Second Class Citizen,\u201d and \u201cWomen\u2019s Liberation.\u201d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Perhaps no decade is so immortalized in American memory as the 1960s. Couched in the colorful rhetoric of peace and love, complemented by stirring images of the civil rights movement, and fondly remembered for its music, art, and activism, for many the decade brought hopes for a more inclusive, forward-thinking nation. But the decade was also plagued by strife, tragedy, and chaos. It was the decade of the Vietnam War, of inner-city riots, and assassinations that seemed to symbolize the crushing\u00a0of a new generation\u2019s idealism. A decade of struggle and disillusionment rocked\u00a0by social, cultural, and political upheaval, the 1960s are remembered because so much changed, and because so much did not. The following sources offer insight into the decade\u2019s impactful\u00a0history.<\/p>\n

Selma March (1965)<\/h2>\n
\"Protestors,<\/p>\n

From Selma to Montgomery, 1965. Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Civil rights activists protested against the injustice of segregation in a variety of ways. Here, in 1965, marchers, some carrying American flags, march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to champion African American voting rights.<\/p>\n

LBJ and Civil Rights Leaders (1964)<\/h2>\n
\"LBJ<\/p>\n

Photograph, January 18, 1964. Wikimedia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As civil rights demonstrations rocked the American South, civil rights legislation made its way through Washington D.C. Here, President Lyndon B. Johnson sits with civil rights leaders in the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Liberation March 1970<\/h2>\n
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\"Women<\/a><\/p>\n

Warren K. Leff;er, Women\u2019s Liberation March from Farrugut Square to Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. 1970. Via Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

American popular feminism accelerated throughout the 1960s. The slogan\u00a0\u201cWomen\u2019s Liberation\u201d accompanied a growing women\u2019s movement but also alarmed conservative Americans. In this 1970 photograph, women march in Washington D.C. carrying signs reading, \u201cWomen Demand Equality,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a Second Class Citizen,\u201d and \u201cWomen\u2019s Liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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