How did the roles of women change?
* The Equal Pay Act of 1963 stated that men and women had to be given the same pay for the same job. * The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on the basis of gender. * In 1966 the National Organisation for Women was set up, by 1970 it had 40,000 members. * In 1972 the Educational Amendment Act banned all forms of gender discrimination in education, including in school books * In 1976 women were admitted to West Point and Anapolis, the elite academies for army and naval officers. The student movement Young people’s protest began in the 1950s: * Beatnik poets, like Allen Ginsberg protested at the smug life of suburbia. He suggested dropping out, taking drugs etc. * Rock n’ roll outraged middle class America when it appeared in 1955. Teenagers’ music became a separate world. * James Dean and Elvis Presley became heroes of the younger generation. However, the real protests began in the 1960s Why did protests increase dramatically in the 1960s? * The growth of pop music focused
