Dutchman | Historical Context
Civil Rights in the 1960s
The year of Dutchman's debut, 1964, was a tense year in the United States—especially for civil rights issues. Both violent and nonviolent protests occurred daily in contention of these issues. Although it had been nearly a decade since Rosa Parks, by refusing to vacate her bus seat to a white patron, sparked a series of bus boycotts that led to a wholesale Civil Rights Movement, legalized equal rights for blacks were still denied in practice. Sit-ins and other forms of nonviolent resistance took place to protest the reluctance of some...
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