The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40

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The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40


In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the 60s also saw growth in the Women’s Movement, the LGBT Rights Movement, the Latino Rights Movement, and the…

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  1. Thank you LBJ for absolutely strong arming the F*** out of congress to get the civil rights and voting rights bills passed. That man was flawed like everyone else in history but man did he have some heroic moments.

  2. Just to pick some nits: At 08:36 technically the occupation of Alcatraz was done by a group that called itself the Indians of All Tribes, not by the American Indian Movement (AIM). Though one of the Alcatraz occupiers, John Trudell, later served as chairman of AIM, other occupiers were openly critical of Trudell and were adamant they were separate from AIM. For those looking to learn more about the occupation, San Francisco's ABC 7 television station has an interesting documentary about it available on YouTube that serves as both an inspirational and cautionary tale.