[Scenic Sounds]

Bingo!

The most important American political changes in the Sixties were the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). Nothing's been quite the same since.

All the cultural stuff was, you know, mostly just for fun. No harm, no foul! ;-)

[wtc911]

The most important American political changes in the Sixties were the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). Nothing's been quite the same since.

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You have to add the anti-war movement.

[Alkhin]

The only objection I hve to the '6r Civil Rights acts is that it seems to have been a bit of overwriting of laws that were already in place and needed enforcing...it has the stench of rewriting the US Constitution, which if it had been followed as the root for state laws, the question of whether or not blacks were protected would have been solved without further legislation; also, we now have a generation or two of people thinking that no one had any freedom at all until 1964, that the Civil Rights Act OVERwrites the Bill of Rights and that the Bill of Rights is a Dead Thing. This is what troubles me about that law. I think what should have happened, if the Feds were going to be involved, they should have come in, wiped out whatever laws were on the state's books and pointed to the US Constitution and its Amendments and said "LOOK HERE! What does it say? ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. So, you not only let the blacks act as equal citizens, you do it with a smile on your face and a flag in your hand!"

BUT NOOOOOOO. I just see the Civil Rights Act as a precursor to rewriting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. THAT's wrong.