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Much of Hughes's work is political — war, racial injustice, lynchings.
Civil war could mean the destruction of what the ANC stood for; with civil war, racial peace would be more difficult than ever to achieve.
With this in mind, we look back four decades to the opinion polls of 1968 -- a year dominated by an unpopular war, racial tensions, economic unease and a presidential election upon which much would hang.
His music gained a strong following among white liberals who were inspired by his songs of protest about the Vietnam War, racial inequality, abuse of women and social issues.
The culture wars are commonly said to have taken shape in the 1960s, a time of upheaval and bitter discord in which America's valued institutions — its churches, its universities, its rule of law — came under steady assault even as differences over the cold war, racial injustice and sexual mores left Americans fiercely at odds.
As 19th-century Native Americans were forced to adapt to a world dynamically altered by war, racial brutality, disease and displacement, photographic depictions of them habitually trafficked in stereotypes built on an implicit comparison between the new, "civilized" Indian and the tradition-bound "savage".
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But there is one area, at least, in which this is not true - the fertile terrain of the post-war racial and religious transformation of this country.
In the long running skit-like column, Hughes charts Simple's interactions with post-war racial politics for the paper's black readership.
In a few years just before the first world war, the racial complexion of Harlem was transformed.
They worried that it was diluting its effectiveness by taking stands on issues beyond gay rights — opposing the Vietnam War and racial discrimination, for example.
It was finite and all smiles — far different from the Vietnam War, the racial tensions and the much-discussed generation gap of the same era.
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