Topical Discussion 4: Civil Rights, the 1960s, the Cold War
Choose ONE of the questions below ***(Let me know, which topic you choose as soon as you know which one your working on please).
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1. How/why did the modern Black Freedom Struggle change in the 1950s and 1960s?
2. Rather than one civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, we can see many unfolding at similar times. What should we know about these other movements? What is most important? How did they change? (You don’t have to cover all of them … pick one of two and go with it).
3. How did LBJ’s Great Society affect American socially and politically?
4. How did the role of the federal government in society and the economy change in this period (1960s, early 1970s)?
5. Why was 1968 such a pivotal year?
6. How did the Cold War change in the 1960s and 1970s? Why? What did those changes mean for Americans at home and the place of America in the world?
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General Instructions:
Your initial posts should be at least 200 words. Your answer should begin with a concise thesis as a direct answer to the question, analyze the main ideas presented in the readings and videos, and cite specific supporting details from the reading (I mean that you need to bring in specific examples). Answers should be original (can’t be something you copied and can’t be something that someone else has already said), detailed, and include specific examples to back up your points and/or quotations from the primary source readings (which must be accompanied by your analysis of that quotation).
