The Swinging Sixties: A Time of Civil Resistance

This brought about the environment that African Americans feel like "falling in the corner of American society" (King). Because of this obstacle, the black community feels suppression. There is no hope, Through his campaign, Martin Luther King can regain lost optimism. His vision is that everyone is equal. In his speech, Kim said that the white and the black are the same, and he said that "(American white people) their fate is closely related to the fate of (black Americans)."

It was in 1960 that the civil rights movement was increasing momentum. Civil rights leaders posted a full page ad in the New York Times to collect funds to help civil rights leaders signed by prominent Americans including Martin Luther King in the 1960s. This advertisement explains the "unprecedented fear wave" that the police went to peaceful demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama. The majority of what it describes is accurate, but some of the advertising fees are not. For example, although the advertisement says the police "surrounded" the campus of the university where the protesters were, the accusation was exaggerated. Also included in this ad was a misleading statement that "the whole student organization refused to reregister and paddled their restaurants to starve when they protested the national authorities."

The 1960s was an era of social movements and revolts. In the past decade, feminism, civil rights movement, and anti-mainstream culture have been reborn. Over the past ten years it has been the cause of the public's freedom, openness, and tolerance improvement, but in the past 10 years, to the great resistance and disadvantages, including resistance to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War The disadvantages of it were also seen. On arrival in the late 60's, this country will enter the 1970's