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1960 - 1969
The sixties were the age of youth, as
70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued andeventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer has content to be imaged of the generation ahead of them, young people wantedchange. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.________________________________________
FACTS about this decade.
• Population 177,830,000
• National Debt 286.3 Billion
• Average Salary $4,743
• Teacher's Salary $5,174
• Minimum Wage $1.00
• Life Expectancy:Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
• Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
• An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailercamps.
EDUCATION
During the sixties, college campuses became centers of debate and scenes of protest more than ever before. Great numbers of young adults, baby boomers, reaching military draft ageand not yet voting age caused a struggle which played out on many campuses as the country became more involved in the Vietnam War.
Problems in secondary schools, discovered in the fifties, werebeing addressed in books such as James B. Conant's The American High School Today. A return to the teaching of basic thinking skills was seen to be part of the solution. In grade schools across thenation, phonics made a come back as reading specialists try to fix what went wrong in American education in the fifties.
MUSIC
In 1960, Elvis returned to the music scene from the US Army,joining the other white male vocalists at the top of the charts. America, however, was ready for a change. The Tamla Motown Record Company came on the scene, specializing in black rhythm and blues, aided...
The sixties were the age of youth, as
70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued andeventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer has content to be imaged of the generation ahead of them, young people wantedchange. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.________________________________________
FACTS about this decade.
• Population 177,830,000
• National Debt 286.3 Billion
• Average Salary $4,743
• Teacher's Salary $5,174
• Minimum Wage $1.00
• Life Expectancy:Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
• Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
• An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailercamps.
EDUCATION
During the sixties, college campuses became centers of debate and scenes of protest more than ever before. Great numbers of young adults, baby boomers, reaching military draft ageand not yet voting age caused a struggle which played out on many campuses as the country became more involved in the Vietnam War.
Problems in secondary schools, discovered in the fifties, werebeing addressed in books such as James B. Conant's The American High School Today. A return to the teaching of basic thinking skills was seen to be part of the solution. In grade schools across thenation, phonics made a come back as reading specialists try to fix what went wrong in American education in the fifties.
MUSIC
In 1960, Elvis returned to the music scene from the US Army,joining the other white male vocalists at the top of the charts. America, however, was ready for a change. The Tamla Motown Record Company came on the scene, specializing in black rhythm and blues, aided...
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