Dale Mineshima-Lowe
A Decade of Turbulence: The Impact of 1960s America
Summary
From promises to address inequalities to counterculture movements challenging foreign and domestic policies, America in the 1960s was a time of provocation and change. This talk will look at Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society plans in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the civilian movements and protests that characterised the decade and the evolving priorities of the U.S. in the space race, which began in the mid-1950s.
Dale Mineshima-Lowe
Dale Mineshima-Lowe has been teaching in the UK at various higher education institutions over the past 20 years—across a range of politics and human geography topics, as well as teaching politics and social history topics (particularly American history, European modern history, and Japanese history) at the adult-continuing education level for the past 12 years. She is also managing editor for the Center of International Relations, a think tank based in Washington, DC. And when she isn’t teaching, researching, or editing, she sits and jots down ideas for books she’d like to write one day.
It is in the sense, but one of the big things that happens to influence the sexual revolution is that in 1960, birth control pills get approved. That changes the way in which women view their bodies, and start to think about what they want in life in terms of work-life balance, family. But it gives them different options that perhaps they didn’t see in the 1950s.