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R-E-S-P-E-C-T:
Sounding out the Wide Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
Winnetka Main Library · Free
What has become known as the "long civil rights movement" reaches backward and forward from the mid-1960s to a broader and ongoing African-American struggle for rights and dignity in the United States. But in the 1960s, there was also a widening of the civil rights movement from African-Americans in the South to many people who sought to achieve-and even transform-full political, cultural, and economic citizenship in the nation. Using Otis Redding's 1965 song, "Respect" (made most famous by Aretha Franklin, who recorded a hit version in 1967), we will listen in on this wide civil rights movement to better understand commonalities among the social movements of the 1960s.
Michael J. Kramer, Ph.D., is a lecturer in History and American Studies at Northwestern University. He specializes in twentieth-century United States cultural and intellectual history with a focus on popular culture, the arts, civil society and citizenship, and transnational history.
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