That was Bob Dylans Hurricane and today on 3GG in the celebration of the day of remembrance of Bob Dylans death we thought that for our segment Words that changed the World we would look at his song Hurricane that touched the lives of many and contributed to empowering the African-American people in the 1960s.
Musical break introducing the segment
1966 was a year when a famous robbery occurred in a hot New Jersey night. Rubin Hurricane Carter was incriminate of this and sadly was arrested for a crime he said that he never committed. 1966 was also a era of astonishing developments in science and technology. Some of the great things to be achieved were
-NOW National arrangement for women is formed in the United States pioneering new feminist solidarity
-Fibre oculus telephone cables are devised
Not only did the 60s see man base on balls on the moon for the first time but brought take to to people imagining a good future
Sadly conditions for blacks were not developing at such an astounding rate; the early 1960s was a time when conditions were still bad for all the black people in the southeasternern United States. Blacks were kept out of universities; they were separated in cinemas and on buses; and many were prevented from voting.
The civil rights movement campaigned against such injustices with plug demonstrations. On freedom rides blacks and whites rode to renderher on buses through the south to defy segregation laws. Two new civil rights bills passed in 1964 and 1965 saw improved conditions in the south and 1964 civil rights locomote bans many forms of racial discrimination in the US, but many blacks complained that they still held inferior conditions. They got the worst housing and schooling, and the lowest paying(a) jobs. From 1965, black riots broke out in many...
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