Decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen that its very important. In some ways more important in the 1960s which gets a lot of the attention. One of the themes that i talked about is calling this era the age of limit. Will get to what that means. We will talk about that and we will talk about the question mark. We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had, not just on 1880s but down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a profound loss in the american institutions. Driven by nixons resignation over watergate of 1974. The final end of the vietnam war. You see the photo of helicopter of the u. S. Embassy picking up the last of the vietnamese soon to be refugees out of the country. The loss of the war was devastating in many ways for the United States. It really showed that one of the world superpowers had a big achilles heel. Had a bill of big effect on the military. The Antiwar Movement have
Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have talked about is calling this era the age of limits. We will get to a little bit about what that means. We will talk about that and also the . Was this really an age of limits . We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had on not just the 1980s but really down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a pretty profound loss of faith in American Institution driven by nixons resignation over watergate in 1974. The final end of the vietnam war i
Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they accomplished what at the time you may have thought they would . Yes in terms of they provided access. I never had to doubt whether i was going to be able to apply to any college i wanted to apply to. It never occurred to me that i would be denied Something Like that education because of limitations that were put in place by law. All that was done, all that was sealed. It never does it mean that i
Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they accomplished what at the time you may have thought they would . Yes in terms of they provided access. I never had to doubt whether i was going to be able to apply to any college i wanted to apply to. It never occurred to me that i would be denied Something Like that education because of limitations that were put in place by law. All that was done, all that was sealed. It never does it mean that i
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose these men and women lived important lives. They enriched our culture through their inventions, their art and their enterprise. They appeared over the past 25 years of this program and we take a moment this evening to appreciate them. It kind of catapulted me into a status that i dont think i would have achieved had i continued doing r b and pop. So its a little bit you know. Rose would you have just been known as a jazz artist. Orr b pop artist. So now im singing with pass i hado domingo and jose car eras and getting offers from all over the world to perform for royalty and getting invited even to social events. And people wanted to meet and look in the face of and it was like i got this whole new audience of people who didnt know anything about what i did before. Rose how much of it do you think wa