Chapter 8: Poison Dreams, Unpinned, 1960-1969 The 1960’s was a very troubled time period. The man many Americans looked up to was murdered, African Americans were still treated poorly during the sixties, a major leader of the Civil Rights Movement was also killed, and many people lived in poverty. The United States also were flying over a country and everyone soon became terrified. The sixties was a very troubling time period. The main social issue was the Civil Rights Movement in the south. The Civil Rights Movement was in full stride, the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended in the fifties, but blacks were still treated as lesser people. A new way of protesting were sit ins, blacks sat at white only counters waiting to be served. They were brutally attacked by white dinners, and eventually were arrested. A group of black students created SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which taught the black community about ongoing issues and tried to desegregate the entire community. Between 1961 and 1962, around sixty blacks homes were bombed. Also during that time, Bull Connor tried to stop the movement, and sent dogs and fire houses at protestors. This was a defining moment of the time. Pictures were taken of the incident and published in papers, many whites changed views due to the pictures, and the north tried to contribute in helping the south. After the…show more content… More people were in poverty than ever, they spent way too much money in the fifties and did not save enough. Also, many drugs became popular and people became hooked on the drugs like LSD. This caused many people to lose their money due to a terrible addiction. Also, the Vietnam war was so expensive that the promise Lyndon B. Johnson made to change poverty was broken. He also added more money into the war in order to try and win it, which many believed it was impossible. The poverty issue was a huge issue throughout the
