CSPAN3 Lectures In History Gender 1960s Activism July 14, 2024
About female activists in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In focuses on several women the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who held leadership roles and the challenges they faced. Today we have shifted into the 1960s. One of the things about the 1960s is this idea that a lot of americans felt they were on the precipice of promise, of greatness. It held a lot of possibilities and opportunities in the postwar era. Had just been elected president. He is young and charismatic, he had platform on a number of promises and so this should give a little bit of context where the Womens Movemen...