TTAAJJ: Super Seventies
Civil Rights
Civil Rights are the basic legal rights a person must have in order to have such a status. They are also the rights that free and equalize citizenship and include personal political and economic rights. Such rights can be to a person on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, that is a common ground in political discussion.
In the 1960’s women began to organize around the issues of their civil rights and by the early 1970’s most women throughout the world gained many rights according to law, all political, economic, and social equality with men remained the same like both men and women could have a job. Everywhere else in the world, the women's rights movement has made some progress. More than 90 percent of the nations, women can vote and hold public office. Today women even have women rights groups, but they also have the rights to vote hold public office, and they have the same rights as men.
The political scene for African American in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s had some disappointments and affirmations. The election of Lester Maddox who served from 1967 to 1971 was an effort by white supremacists to revive segregation in state government. But, four years later the election of Governor Jimmy Carter who served from 1971 to 1975, declared that the time for racial discrimination has passed. His administration attempted to cancel out what's left of the image of Georgia as a leftover of the "old south" in the land of civil rights and race relations. The election of Maynard Jackson as mayor in 1973 made him the first African American Mayor in the “deep south” and persist that the fight for black political strength that had been fought for so many years by his grandfather, John Wesley Dobbs. Further confirmation of the power of the black electorate was the 1973 election of former SCLC leader Andrew Young, as the first African American Congressman from Georgia since rebuilding. Although there was still a lot to achieve, it seemed that the 30-year fight for civil rights in Atlanta had not been in vain. During the 1960’s and 1970’s civil rights focused on specifically on racial equality were terms of five under which a social movement would decline.
Events and Concerns
In the year of 1970, a man named Michael E. Sutton created an African American soul stepping show. The traditions and customs that explain the Black Greek experience are often misunderstood and taken the wrong way. The most misunderstood tradition among black colleges is the custom of stepping. African American step shows not only raises the awareness of stepping, but defines the custom within the meaning of African folks tradition. The history of stepping describes the differences of this phenomenon form the view of our significant time eras that is still used today. For example, step performed in African colleges a certain way that characterized stepping during the 1920’s and the 1930’s. While the formation of walking in lines, singing and performing the custom during the 1940’s and the 1950’s. As a result of civil unrest and student dissatisfaction with campus facilities during the 1960’s the “shout n’ foot stomp n’ tribalism” war dancing dominated stepping formats during the era. However, the decade of the 1970’s and the beginning of events as Greek weekend stepping performances began to transform to move formal performances that emphasized.
Also in the 1970’s, William Hastic Fellowship program established to encourage minority lawyers to become law school faculty members. In that same year, clinical legal education blossoms: they evolve from Ed hoc arrangement to formal programs, often connected to specific academic courses, with full time supervising lawyers. All this is giving you information on different events and concerns in the 1970’s.
Literature
Most of the books that were published in the 1970 are revolved around human hostility from their spiritual roots. One author John Updike showed characters as trying to find meaning in a society that is without spirituality and that is in moral decay. Joyce Carol Oates wrote about the search for spiritual meaning in the contemporary world, and Kurt Vonnegut explored the loneliness of contemporary society and power hungry materialism. One of the strongest authors to arrive from this decade was Toni Morrison who studied the black American experience.
Some stories that were on the bestsellers list in fiction were: Love story by, Erich Segal, The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles, The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart and Rich Man, Poor Man, Irwin Shaw. Some nonfiction stories were Ball Four by, Jim Bouton, and in Someone's Shadow by, Rod McKuen.
Advancements
There was really a great advancement in computer technology in the 1970’s. Some common advancement in the 1970’s was desktop computers. Desktop computers were introduced in the late 1970’s from certain manufacturers like Osborne, Apple, Tandy, Kaypro, Xerox, Victor, and Morrow. Various manufacturers tried to change PC’s from mainframes to small computer platforms.
Music
The 1970’s was a perfect time for music. The type of music that was most common was rock & roll, disco music, teen bop, and dance music. Some popular musicians were the Jackson 5, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Village People and the Beatles. Rock & Roll was one of the top two music industries in the 1970’s. Rock and roll was popular because of the unique style of music, it was a way people expressed themselves and had a good time. Each band member in the 1970’s had different ideas that created a perfect band and it rocked and rolled. A very popular band in the 1970’s was Chicago because some of their songs many different types of music together.
Disco was also very popular. It was a mixture of Latin and swing music. Disco started by what they called “disk jockey’s” which meant DJ’s. They used DJ’s to play the records instead of live bands, which was actually cheaper. Some movies led to the popularity of the whole disco music.
Progressive rock was another popular genre in the 1970’s. This type of music was rock music mixed with another genre such as classical or opera. Songs under this genre were longer and the band was more spontaneous and experimental while they played live. A lot of progressive rock albums were also concept albums, which means they followed a theme throughout the entire album or series of albums. The band Pink Floyd was very good at doing this.
Media
Media in the 1970’s was very powerful. Most televisions and pictures were in black and white, but they did also have color. Cable television was a luxury to have int the 1970’s. Media helped to uncover military abuses and exposed a corrupt presidential administration. Magazines promoted social performs and television had a more socially responsible act. Television was popular in the 1970’s as some topics that were once considered taboo was broadcasted on the airways for the first time.
In the 1970’s TV producers turned away form the excess of violence seen in some drama series of the 1960’s, to find other ways to stimulate their audiences. Some of the shows that were popular in the 1970’s were: All in the Family, The Bob Newhart, The Brady Bunch, Chips, Good Times, Happy Days, The Jefferson’s, Laverne & Shirley, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Muppet Show, The Odd Couple, Sanford & Son, Taxi, The Walton’s and Welcome Back Kotter.
