Please speak as to the major overriding societal factors. Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. was a skilled leader, but what about the times allowed for such ideas.
Sure, the kids were afraid of going to Vietnam, but why was Vietnam the first American war to cause some outrage? It certainly was not the only pointless one.
Granted, the new generation had just been supressed by the 1950s, but is that really reason for such a radical shift in American culture?
I understand that blacks were mistreated under the Jim Crow laws, but they had been mistreated for centuries!
What was it about the 1960s that made is so conducive to radicalism?
2007-04-04
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