PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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poverty in the United States was more widespread than people thought
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the civil rights movement would fracture the United States
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a rising youth culture would dominate the United States
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government policies could do little to change society
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harrington sought to convince his readers that poverty was a condition not easy to shed. Everything in the lives of the Other Americans conspired to keep them in poverty. Outside intervention by the federal government was necessary to improve their condition.
Detailed explanation-2: -The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us. No wonder that so many misinterpreted Galbraith’s’ title and assumed that “the affluent society” meant that everyone had a decent standard of life.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Other America, written by Michael Harrington in 1962, provided the impetus needed by the federal government to implement social welfare programs in the hope of ending poverty in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dr. King first gave his “Other America” speech at Stanford University in 1967 and addressed topics surrounding race, poverty and economic injustices that were, and still are, plaguing American society. In Dr. King’s speech he begins by painting the picture of the two Americas that exist in American society.