A Nation Of Protests, The Age Of Dissent
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...18th century has revolution in the United States and revolutionary thinking so challenged the framework of the American mindset. Not, that is, until, the Sixties. The 1960's were a period of great social change in America and it left a legacy of political awareness that continues to exist today. A generation has since been raised with more of a consciousness and awareness of social inequity than any generation preceding it. The origins of the protest movements of the sixties can best be traced to two specific arenas, the beatniks of the late 1950's and the civil rights movement in the South. By 1970, these worlds of dissent had grown into virtually every remnant of American society. (Bloom) Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsburg have become pop icons of the "Beat Movement." They articulated their horror and amazement of 1950's conformity, the fear generated by the Cold War, and the profound conviction that the government of the 1950's was nothing other than a big lie. Life of the Beats was not the complacent suburbs, the company man or the "silent generation." Beatniks wore black clothes and talked a new language while they hitch hiked around...
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