American Historian, C. Vann Woodward wrote a book which held a compilation of essays in 1960 in which he named “ The Burden of Southern History”. It held many observations of the American people in and around the 1960’s.
“The painful truth that Americans were so frantically fleeing was that history had at last caught up with them. It was no longer "something unpleasant that happens to other people," for it was happening to them too in their own part of the world. Neither their fabulous wealth nor their unequaled power, their superb technology nor their legendary "know-how", nor all these endowments combined assured them of success in solving their most pressing problems. On both the foreign front and the domestic front they had at last encountered problems that defied solutions of the traditional short-term sort and mocked their religion of optimism [....].” is an excerpt from the book in question. I believe that this passage is talking about the combination of Civil unrest dealing with the Civil Rights movement and overseas conflict with the Vietnamese which led to the Vietnam War.
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African American men and women being judged and harassed because of the color of their skin was inevitable. Every facility was deemed either whites only or blacks only, this meant that either race was not allowed in an area that wasn’t labeled as theirs. African Americans were fed up. They didn’t appreciate getting the short end off the stick because someone didn’t like the way they looked. This caused an uprising and the civil rights movement was introduced. White American didn’t appreciate the results of the civil rights movement. African Americans were using the facilities that were used only for whites. They boycotted and protested which caused pressing problems on the domestic front, right in their comfort