Civil Rights

The 1960’s were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth’s lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to …showed first 75 words of 2078 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2078 total…relationships), and antiinstitutionalism (distrust of conventional institutional roles and careers). Flacks was a previous leader of SDS (Chalmers 74). The sixties were filled with civil rights movements and great leaders guided people through this time. Before the sixties blacks may have been free persons in the United States, but they weren’t looked upon as the same as everyone else. Blacks had almost no rights and couldn’t vote. The sixties granted them their well-deserved rights.