Answer to Question #178596 in History for jose

Question

You will be writing an open letter to the public explaining (from their perspective) why your person from the 1950’s is important to US History. You will be writing the letter in the format of an open letter to the editor.  You will need to have these components:

1. A letter explaining your contributions to society and addressing your detractors as to why you are the most influential person in the 1950’s.  You may be addressing a perceived error or misrepresentation of your work, but make sure you use evidence and events from your life that occurred in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.

Answer 1

Open letter to the public explaining then contribution to the society

 

               In the summer of 1955, a wave of anti-black brutality culminated in the assassination and gruesome murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, eliciting massive and outspoken demonstrations by black and white Americans. By December 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott had launched a lengthy program of peaceful civil disobedience to oppose racism that garnered national and foreign recognition. In a wide degree, the realities of various epochs. Giesen demonstrates in his essay for this volume that, despite the fact that concepts of time have existed and evolved over thousands of years from the identification of time as a period of action and a period of living to the differentiation of time according to hierarchical position (the gods are eternal; empires rise, prosper, and fall; humans have a time lifespan) to the concept of time as progress stability exists. However, in modern decades, prevalent definitions of transformation have shifted. Radical shift as a term for describing a continuous dynamic between social units gained prominence during the French Revolution and the industrial revolution in England, all of which were characterized by exceptional dynamism.

           In 1956, a coalition of Southern senators and representatives signed the "Southern Manifesto," pledging to oppose ethnic integration by any "lawful means." Resistance peaked in 1957–1958, during the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis. Simultaneously, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights successfully lobbied for the introduction of the 1957 Civil Rights Act and pressed for much tougher laws. In 1960, NAACP Youth Council chapters held sit-ins at whites-only lunch counters, igniting a nationwide backlash toward discrimination in public accommodations. John F. Kennedy's administration saw a spike in nonviolent political action, starting with the 1961 Freedom Rides. We differentiate between explanations of cultural change as such and explanations of other mechanisms of change that make reference to culture as a determinant. The majority of contemporary theorists agree that culture should be viewed as an analytically distinct feature of social existence that should be studied independently. However, every attempt to research culture is hindered by the difficulties of developing a proper description of culture and a proper portrayal of its scientific manifestations. Culture seems to impart an "elementary diffuseness" on the analyst (Neidhardt 1986).