1965-1973+in+the+USA

During this time period, our country was experiencing many social changes and social issues. Our country was involved in the Vietnam War conflict that many of our young citizens were against and protested our involvement. We had a military draft that all males were included by law. Soldiers that returned home from Vietnam had war trauma and drug problems to overcome. The music scene was changing with many groups addressing the social issues with their lyrics. People gathered together at large college universities to protest this war, such as the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. Youth gangs were a problem in larger cities as well as the acceptance of integration of blacks and whites.

Your assignment is to pick one of these social issues, research it and create a report that tells how it affected our country as a whole and what was done to overcome/correct the issue. This is the same time period that S. E.Hinton wrote the novels "The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This Is Now". You should see a relationship betwwen the what was going on in our country and the social settings she used in the novels.