A Conversation with My Father | Historical Context
Political Upheaval Leads to Generation Gap
The early 1970s followed a time of great social upheaval in the United States. In the 1960s, the country was divided over issues that affected nearly everyone in some capacity, civil rights, the Vietnam War and the women's movement were among the most important. The broad-based civil rights movement of the early 1960s gave way, in the wake of the deaths of Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X in 1965 and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, to the more radical politics of a younger generation of activists epitomized by...
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