Question

What was going on in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s?

Answer 1

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago was emerging into a new hub for the musician who developed a style of soul music. The Chicago Freedom Movement started, which was led by Martin Luther King Jr and others. The movement started as the civil rights campaign in America for African Americans against discrimination and segregation.

Answer 2

Things were going along as they did in the 50s but tv was more influential. It was influential in a few ways.

Music was a mixed bag with a couple stations playing swing and polkas and a couple playing gospel and blues while rock and roll was going strong...hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, hill billy rock, Detroit rock, Philadelphia rock, and even some home grown Chicago rockers.

TV brought us the news. People became news obssessed...men walking on the Moon, Political assassinations, the never ending war in Vietnam, racial turmoil, the Beatles, Mayor Daley never ending terms, political unrest in :incoln and Grant Parks while the poilice bash in heads while theworld watches...on live tv.