Injustice Case

"Protest"

by Jimmy Mosley, Jr. (1960's)

Additional social and political expressions for the year 1960's

Music to take you Back in Time

political event:

John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected as first Catholic President of theUnited States and announced his ideas for the nation under the banner the New Frontier .

social events:

February 1, 1960 four African American Students (Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Franklin McClain) enrolled at North Carolina A & T College sat down at a Greensboro F. W. Woolworth lunch counter, seeking to be served. The sit-in movement began across the United States to dismantle segregation.

Two student radicals at the University of Michigan, Tom Hayden and Al Haber, formed the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1960.

Freedom Rides began in May 1961. On May 14, a mob of whites attacked the black and white protesters and burned and bombed the bus they were riding. The Freedom Riders boarded another bus and went to Birmingham where they were brutally beaten. The bus company then refused to honor the tickets of the riders who flew on to New Orleans.

drama:

Raisin in the Sun, a play by young Chicago-born playwright Lorraine Hansberry, opened on Broadway March 11, 1959.

sculpture:

"Die" (1962) Tony Smith

film:

Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge costarred in the musical drama Porgy and Bess (1959). Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), filmed by Harry Belafonte's Harbel Producations, written by John Oliver Killens, and starring Harry Belafonte who plays a nightclub musician caught in a web of gambling debts and haunted by a rocky marriage.

dance:

Alvin Ailey

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	Music to take you Back in Time
political event:	John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected as first Catholic President of theUnited States and announced his ideas for the nation under the banner the New Frontier .
social events:	February 1, 1960 four African American Students (Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Franklin McClain) enrolled at North Carolina A & T College sat down at a Greensboro F. W. Woolworth lunch counter, seeking to be served. The sit-in movement began across the United States to dismantle segregation. Two student radicals at the University of Michigan, Tom Hayden and Al Haber, formed the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1960. Freedom Rides began in May 1961. On May 14, a mob of whites attacked the black and white protesters and burned and bombed the bus they were riding. The Freedom Riders boarded another bus and went to Birmingham where they were brutally beaten. The bus company then refused to honor the tickets of the riders who flew on to New Orleans.
drama:	Raisin in the Sun, a play by young Chicago-born playwright Lorraine Hansberry, opened on Broadway March 11, 1959.
sculpture:	"Die" (1962) Tony Smith
film:	Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge costarred in the musical drama Porgy and Bess (1959). Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), filmed by Harry Belafonte's Harbel Producations, written by John Oliver Killens, and starring Harry Belafonte who plays a nightclub musician caught in a web of gambling debts and haunted by a rocky marriage.
dance:	Alvin Ailey