Assignment

"Despite the social turmoil that they produced, the 1960s left the United States a more just, culturally diverse, and politically tolerant nation than it had been when the decade began." Assess the validity of that statement through the analysis of one of the following three pairs of documents. Your analysis should take into account the influence of the war in Vietnam, if appropriate.

Choose from below

1. Betty Friedan, an excerpt from "The Feminine Mystique," and The National Organization for Women's Statement of Purpose, 1966: http://now.org/about/history/statement-of-purpose/

2. Sitting-in in Mississippi, 1963 http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/am_hist/ap/chapter29/29.1.comingofage.html, and Black Power, 1967: http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/am_hist/ap/chapter29/29.1.blackpower.html