Counterculture and the 1960sIn the 1960s, young people challenged pragmatism and American culture as well as political norms. A quest for a desirable world, using music, politics and elective lifestyles to construct what became recognized as counterculture. Americans of this generation faced many questionable causes, from nonconformity, sexual freedom, civil rights, nuclear weapons, the Vietnam War, and the environment to drug use (Altman, 1999 ). The concepts of the countercultural movement such as community, individual freedom, sharing, protest and self-expression, it is with this theory that so many activists and reformers, encouraged by the conversion as the hippies refined, established the will to persist by revolutionizing social and political policy (Altman, 1999). From the early 1970s, women's rights were widely seen as a social movement and their legacy grew (Anderson, 1993). The American evolution formed by "feminists" whose ambitions were to "revolutionize the way women were examined and treated in society." This they did, by addressing and challenging, making a large part of the population aware of the provocations that many women faced, in the workplace and in a global society. The 1977 law, which made discrimination a punishable crime, aspired to include discrimination against women (Anderson, 1993). The evolution of civil rights was a time when African Americans were striving to gain their constitutional rights that they owned. being deprived of one of the greatest political movements in American history (enotes, 2010). A laudable aspect of the civil rights movement was the unachievable triumph that black people sought and built. In the middle of the document......e three of the most memorable aspects when referring to the 1960s. Americans of that era faced many controversial issues, from civil rights, the Vietnam War, from nuclear weapons and the environment to drug use, sexual freedom and non-conformism. Many have used different outlets in their quest for a better world. Works Cited Altman, R. (1999). E-learning. Retrieved 10 2010 2010 from CyberLearning-World.com: http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html3/culture.htmAnderson, B. (1993). International women's movement. Retrieved August 10, 2010 from notes. (2010). Retrieved August 1, 2010, from enotes.com: http://www.enotes.com/topics/civil-rights2scholastic.com: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=5196The People History. (2009). Retrieved August 10, 2010 from The People History.com: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60smusic.html