Similarities Between The 1960s And 1930s

Equality according to the Webster’s New World Dictionary 4th Edition is defined as “1.

Of the same quantity, size, value, etc. 2. Having the same rights, ability, rank, etc.” This was not implemented in America during the 1960s and 1930s. These decades are home to major historical events that are recorded in textbooks. Those decades shared a major subject, inequality. Harper Lee decided to acknowledge the inequality in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. She wrote the story with setting in the 1930s but opinions from the 1960s. Raised in a town that held tight to their 1930s opinions during the 1960s, she decided to write what she knew. She showed the inequality in problems such as economy, race, and women. She also highlighted the differences and similarity of said topics during the 1960s and 1930s.

They did have one similarity, and it was that they were post war economies. In the 1930s the country had been hit with The Great Depression that devastated it. Alabama was badly affected, for there was “massive unemployment in a state that had always been poor (Tan, 2016).” It was so bad that those who managed to get out of poverty were questioned and claimed to be allied with communists. ½ of the children during those times had no basic needs like food, shelter, and medical care and the unemployment rate had risen by 25% by 1933. (JaneNotali, 2010) The 1960s differed from the 1930s with it having a booming economy and booming technological advances. To many people’s enjoyment, “it had been a long long time since Americans have been free to buy wants but now the war is over. Cars, radios, cordless electric irons, consumer goods of all kind ” (The Second World War, 2015). In the 60s children from the 30s could buy whatever they wanted which they could not do during their childhood of barely affording