Cultural Activism In The United States

The last half of the 20th Century in the United States contains multiple cultural phenomena specific to each decade. Whether it was the feminist movement, cocaine, or the development of the digital world, each decade has a prominent cultural phenomenon. Beginning in the 1960s, it is easy to notice how these cultural phenomena reflect the social, economic, and political ethos of each decade.
1960s:
In the United States, the 1960s was a decade of movement for those who held the minority of social, economic, and political power. Two of the most influential cultural phenomena of the 1960s were the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements. These two movements supported equality for the people being shoved to the back of society. The movements also

Before Nixon’s betrayal to the American public, citizens felt as though they could undoubtedly trust the president to do what is best for the country. When Watergate was exposed it turned the public’s opinion of future presidents more cynical. With Watergate came the exposure of all the other corruption within the United States government. The, slightly less corrupt, FBI was tricked by the CIA to not get involved with Watergate, the IRS was blackmailing corporations, and the president created the Committee to Re-Elect the President, CREEP, that did anything necessary to get the president re-elected. After all this information was leaked to the public there was a massive social and political change. Socially, this cultural phenomenon displayed the public’s new view on politicians as conniving and corrupt. Politically, concerning at least at the highest level of government the public’s opinion was not wrong. For the most part, the 1970s was a time of

With the clothes and architecture that drew attention away from everything else, there was still something that took away the attention better- cocaine. Cocaine was the drug, and cultural phenomenon, of the decade. Cocaine tells all about the social, political, and economic ethos of the American 1980s.
Cocaine was an escape for most people who used the drug. In the United States, economically, the 1980s were a rough time with 13% inflation and 7.5% unemployment rates. The rich were getting richer, and the poor were getting poorer. There were budget cuts to the programs, allowing the poor to live such as welfare, food stamps, and Medicare. On the other hand, the rich were receiving more tax cuts that were designed to create jobs, but the rich, mostly decided to buy a new yacht was more important than creating job opportunities for those less fortunate. Cocaine was a drug for the rich and was used as a symbol of wealth. Of course, the poor wanted everything the rich had, but cocaine was too expensive. Therefore, crack was invented from cocaine to be able to sell to people who could not afford cocaine. Crack is far more dangerous than cocaine, yet with the social status gained from cocaine it was easy for the poor to desire a similar drug. The government increased efforts with the War on Drugs to stop crack and cocaine usage, but they ultimately failed. The War on Drugs created more