1960's Case Study 2

Contemporary Framework 1960's Ethnicity

UK

• There were riots where white police beat up black people
• There was segregation everywhere 
• Black people didn't get the right to vote until 1981
• Not equal job opportunities
• No other ethnicity for prime minister than white british
• Interracial relationships not against the law but not socially acceptable
• Stereotypes that black people are athletic, also stereotypes that they were all criminals

America

• Black people got the right to vote in 1965
• Not equal job opportunities until Obama became President in 2009
• No Native American President
• Native Americans discriminated against
• Interracial relationships not against the law
• Stereotypes that black people are athletic, also stereotypes that they were all criminals

The way that the photographer used a low angle respectful shot of the couple connotes that the newspaper is forward-thinking and agrees with liberal vies. It is going against the status quo in Britain by agreeing with mixed race marriage, however, the fact that this is international news shows how society is not used to this and that Britain is not very forward thinking. 

This cover shows that the 60's was a decade for women's rights. Women in the workplace was a relatively new concept, they had only been working for about 20 years, since the wars had forced women to work in the place of men and they wanted to continue. This article shows that women were tired of dealing with the pay gap, and were willing to do something about it.


The 60's was a time about protesting about peace. You had extreme protests to try and stop the war, you had hippie protesting against nuclear arms. The language used in the newspaper, such as 'hope' shows that the newspaper is liberal and its values align with those of the protestors.