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New work by historians and the civil rights movement of the 1960s brought a new perspective on Reconstruction.
His final work of the 1950s, Walking serves as a precursor to the 1960s: civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s was a major influence on Alston.
Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.
In addition to domestic parties, there are branches of pan-Arab secular parties ( Ba ' ath parties, socialist and communist parties ) that were active in the 1960s and throughout the period of civil war.
The discipline came into its own in the 1960s and early 70s when inexpensive tape recorders were available to document such rising social movements as civil rights, feminism, and anti – Vietnam War protest.
It grew largely due to the influence of the civil rights movement that had gained momentum in the 1960s and many of the women who took up the cause of radical feminism had previous experience with radical protest in the struggle against racism.
This event became, per capita, one of the deadliest civil disturbances of the 1960s.
During the 1960s civil rights movement, Bearden started to experiment again, this time with forms of collage.
While attending Antioch College in the early 1960s, Gould was active in the civil rights movement and often campaigned for social justice.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war.
* the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s in the United States, where rights of black citizens had been violated ;
This contributed to blacks ' attaining the skills to create and support the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, leading to the passage of important federal civil rights laws.
In the late 1960s, a civil rights campaign developed in Northern Ireland.
Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution.
In the 1960s, black civil rights campaigner Malcolm X ( né Malcolm Little ) took the " X " to represent his unknown African ancestral name that was lost when his ancestors were brought to North America as slaves, and then changed his name again to Malik El-Shabazz when he converted to Islam.
In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the voting rights of African-American citizens.
Author Brian O ' Nolan used the pen names Flann O ' Brien and Myles na gCopaleen for his novels and journalistic writing from the 1940s to the 1960s because Irish civil servants were not allowed at that time to publish works under their own names.
During the 1960s, the city was at the center of civil rights issues, notably a sanitation workers ' strike.
* The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage is a prize awarded by Georgia Institute of Technology to individuals who uphold the legacy of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., whose actions in Atlanta, Georgia and testimony before congress in support of the 1963 Civil Rights Bill legislation set a standard for courage during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s.
During the 1960s, Lockheed began development for two large aircraft: the C-5 Galaxy military transport and the L-1011 TriStar wide-body civil airliner.
In the mid-to-late 1960s, the future Mayor and civil rights activist Sam Abbott led a campaign to halt freeway construction and replace it with a Metrorail line to the site of the former train station, and worked with other neighborhood groups to halt plans for a wider system of freeways going into and out of DC.
The local Woolworth's building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as a site of civil rights protests against segregation during the 1960s.
During the 1950s and 1960s, it supported the U. S. civil rights movement and its leadership included several prominent civil rights activists.

1960s and rights
In the late 1960s discrimination against the Catholic minority in electoral boundaries, voting rights, and the allocation of public housing led organisations such as Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) to mount a non-violent campaign for change.
In the early 1960s Ace reintroduced Edgar Rice Burroughs ' work, which had long been out of print, and in 1965, Ace bought the paperback rights to Dune.
Paramount Pictures was not connected to Paramount Records until it purchased the rights to use the name ( but not its catalog ) in the late 1960s.
Starting in the 1960s, as part of the emerging field of law and economics, economists and legal scholars began to study the property rights enjoyed by tenants under the various estates, and the economic benefits and costs of the various estates.
By the 1960s, the Court had extended its interpretation of substantive due process to include rights and freedoms that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but that, according to the Court, extend or derive from existing rights.
Since the 1960s, Ono has been an activist for peace and human rights.
In addition, the years of the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a dramatic change in society's view of illegitimacy and in the legal rights of those born outside of wedlock.
During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as too traditional, and not willing enough to be confrontational.

1960s and movement
Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.
Long a disparaging term in Mexico, the term " Chicano " gradually transformed from a class-based term of derision to one of ethnic pride and general usage within Mexican-American communities, beginning with the rise of the Chicano movement in the 1960s.
Many currents came together to produce the revived Chicano political movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Paired with the dissipation of militant political efforts of the Chicano movement in the 1960s was the emergence of the Chicano generation.
Pfeiffer ( who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming ), Paul Keene ( founder of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania ), and Scott and Helen Nearing ( who inspired the back-to-land movement of the 1960s ).
The British anti-nuclear movement at this time differed from that of the 1960s.
At first a conventional member of the international Communist movement, the CPC broke with its counterpart in the Soviet Union over ideological differences in the 1960s.
It began in the late 1960s, with many of its early converts drawn from the hippie movement.
Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
This activism occurred in the context of a broader antipsychiatry movement that had come to the fore in the 1960s and was challenging the legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis.
The spill-over into mainstream culture, occurred with catsuits being worn by strong female protagonists in popular 1960s TV programs like The Avengers, and in the comic super-heroines such as Catwoman, in which the catsuit represented the independent woman capable of " kick-ass " moves and antics, enabling complete freedom of movement.
His ideas are echoed in cinéma vérité, the movement of the 1960s named after Vertov's Kino-Pravda.
The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov.
The New Reasoner was the most important organ of what became known as the " New Left ", an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
* The modern Environmental movement, which began in the 1960s with concern about air and water pollution, became broader in scope to including all landscapes and human activities.
These " post-environmental movement " thinkers argue that the ecological crises the human species faces in the 21st century are qualitatively different from the problems the environmental movement was created to address in the 1960s and 1970s.
The charismatic movement began in the 1960s and resulted in Pentecostal theology and practice being introduced into many mainline denominations.
The Cold War, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, put a damper on the Esperanto movement as well, as there were fears on both sides that Esperanto could be used for enemy propaganda.
Japanese cinema later became one of the main inspirations behind the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

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