the 60's

Those of the baby-boom generation had all grown up and had children of their own. But these children would be different from their parents. They would rebel against materialism, authority, and convention. They threw away all their moral and social values that their parents had worked so hard to instill. This would soon be dubbed the counterculture. This Youth Movement of the ‘60s played an important role in shaping our country and making it the way it is today.

By the mid 1960’s almost three out of four students finished high school and about half went on to college (“1960’s” 1). College campuses filled with youth who began to question the moral and spiritual health of the nation. There were two new political groups in the sixties. The New Left and the New Right. The New Left was mostly made of students who wanted to bring down university systems, government systems, etc. The New Right was made of blue-collar workers and middle-class white people who were pa...