The American Dream for many became the American Nightmare. Growing up many of us searched for that Norman Rockwell moment. For many of us it never happened. And for all too many, they were never even depicted in that Norman Rockwell image. The 1950’s are romanticized as a time when one paycheck paid for the house, family and white picket fence. What is left out of the equation is the formula only worked if you were a white straight male. Marginalized people stayed hidden or under the radar. Things started to change in the 1960’s. Culminating in 1969, a year of change.

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Hulu: Summer of Soul

https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1969.html

https://www.naylor.com/associationadviser/50-things-that-shaped-our-world-in-1969/

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012224309/questlove-unearths-the-long-forgotten-summer-of-soul

https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/woodstock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moratorium_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/tears-of-america-the-riots-of-1968-u-s-national-archives/AQKiS4WGYdtMJg?hl=en

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