Discuss the impact of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s in American society. Would you describe them as successful? How do you determine success- by what parameters should we measure success?

Social Movements and Revolutions

Answer the following prompt:

Discuss the impact of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s in American society. Would you describe them as successful? How do you determine success- by what parameters should we measure success?

Did these movements achieve their goals- did they change American society? In what ways? How did the counterculture change meanings of freedom and did they create a more equitable society?

These are examples  to cite

(McPherson article, pg. 26)

(Lecture Lesson Module Two, The American West)

(Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress).

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26. The Affluent Society

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