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Since the 1960s, when federal judges ordered the desegregation of hundreds of school systems, one key question has gone unanswered: at what point had a system done enough to mix black and white children in the classroom to satisfy the courts...
That legacy dates back to the early 1950s, when Chuck Berry and Little Richard first introduced white teens to the wildly exuberant sounds that eventually became known as rock 'n' roll. Even after the British invasion of the 1960s, black rockers like Jimi Hendrix, the Ohio Players, and Sly and the Family Stone danced back and forth across the color line. That ended with the disco era of the 1970s, whose slick, producer-driven, synthesizer-motorized tunes created a racial schism in pop music that has yet to mend...
...military, Newman argues, provided overly optimistic battlefield assessments after American advisers were sent to Vietnam in the early 1960s. These were designed to encourage Kennedy to continue America's commitment there. Newman contends that Kennedy eventually became aware of this deception, but he went along because it served his own secret purpose: to withdraw some of the U.S. advisers under the guise that the war was going so well that they were no longer necessary. The "elaborate deception," Newman writes, "was originally designed to forestall Kennedy from a precipitous withdrawal, but he was now using it -- judo style -- to justify...
Associate Register Thurston A. Smith discussed his own experiences as a gay man who joined the military in the early 1960s. When the army discovered hewas gay, Smith said, he was placed under basearrest, held and interrogated daily for threemonths...
...Jones was, in fact, ever so slightly ahead of its time (1963), coming as it did on the cusp of the era of Janis Joplin and LSD. Richardson and Fielding are there to remind us that "free love" was around centuries before the 1960s, may have taken a break during the 50s, but was about to make a strong return by the late 60s. The characters in Tom Jones are among the fiercest drinkers and wildest lovers in all of history...