Right Wisdom

The Sixties! One of the most controversial decades and one that also changed the face of life as we knew it. It was the decade of free love, hippies, drugs, assasinations, space, war, civil rights, and anti-establishment. Quite a bit happened in the sixties that shaped the way society and the world thought. No longer were we in the picturesque America of the 1950s. Civil rights became a prominent feature during the sixties and it helped pave the way for equal rights for minorities and women. Great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. were able to rally thousands of people to follow their dream of freedom and equality. MLK's life was cut short in an assassination but the work he did for civil rights paved the way for history some 40 years later when America voted in the first African American President. There were anti-war demonstrations, feminism demonstrations and civil rights marches, all in the name of Freedom. Everyone had a cause that they wanted to stand up for and beli...