They did so because a closer look at the hard evidence for this earlier claim reveals the actual reverse : the war period, as a time for civil protest, was as deathly quiet as the early Cold War period of roughly 1946-1956 ----- and far quieter than the activist years of the Great Depression and of course during the civil rights era of 1956 -1966.
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Showing posts with label black civil rights. Show all posts
Thursday, April 9, 2015
"All Quiet on the Home Front, WWII" --- Why?
Historians, as a group, are beginning to reverse themselves over their earlier contention that the postwar civil rights, feminism, gay rights movements (et al) were born during the social protests and social advances of WWII.
They did so because a closer look at the hard evidence for this earlier claim reveals the actual reverse : the war period, as a time for civil protest, was as deathly quiet as the early Cold War period of roughly 1946-1956 ----- and far quieter than the activist years of the Great Depression and of course during the civil rights era of 1956 -1966.
They did so because a closer look at the hard evidence for this earlier claim reveals the actual reverse : the war period, as a time for civil protest, was as deathly quiet as the early Cold War period of roughly 1946-1956 ----- and far quieter than the activist years of the Great Depression and of course during the civil rights era of 1956 -1966.
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