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Jul 30, 2010 · Movies and TV Shows; Women’s Rights; Gay Liberation; Antiwar Movement; Watergate Scandal; Jimmy Carter; Emerging Technology; Fashion in the 1970s; Music and Culture; Sports in the...
The 1970s was a decade marked by the Watergate scandal, the growing women's rights, gay rights and environmental movements, and 1970s fashion and music.
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May 30, 2012 · The 1970s. The 1970s are famous for bell-bottoms and the rise of disco, but it was also an era of economic struggle, cultural change and technological innovation.
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- Julia (1968-1971) Diahann Carroll as Julia, January 1968. Broadway star Diahann Carroll became the first African American woman to receive an Emmy nomination in 1969, for her role as a widowed middle-class nurse raising a small son in the suburbs.
- Soul Train (1971-2006) Don Cornelius and the Soul Train Dancers doing the signature Soul Train show ending by shouting "LOVE, PEACE AND SOUL" on episode 396, airing June 26, 1982.
- Good Times (1974-1979) The 'Good Times' cast, shown in 1977. In the front row, John Amos (left) and Jimmie Walker; back row, from left, Ralph Carter, Bern Nadette Stanis, Ja'net DuBois, and Esther Rolle.
- The Jeffersons (1975-1985) The cast of ‘The Jeffersons’ (L-R Berlinda Tolbert, Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Franklin Cover, Roxie Roker and Marla Gibbs (seated), circa 1977.
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- Women’s Power Dressing. Diana, Princess of Wales aboard the new cruise liner "Royal Princess," named in her honor, after its formal naming ceremony, 1984.
- Food + Fun = ‘Eatertainment’ A man dressed up as Chuck E. Cheese, rodent restaurateur, 1987. Video games saw a huge rise in the 1980s, with standup machines like “Centipede” and, “Pac Man” (both released in 1980) and “Street Fighter” (released in 1988) sending kids and teens to mall arcades in droves.
- Music Goes Visual. MTV Founder Bob Pittman, 1983. When MTV took to the airwaves in 1981, the world's first music video channel kicked things off with "Video Killed the Radio Star."
- The Mall Food Court Has a Heyday. View across a crowded food court in the Cleveland Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio, August 1985. The Arcade was one of the first covered shopping centers in the United States.
Sep 14, 2018 · The hippie counterculture reached its height during the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and subsided as the conflict drew to a close. By: Sarah Pruitt. Updated: August 3, 2023 ...
Aug 16, 2017 · Post-modernism, as it appeared in the 1970s, is often linked with the philosophical movement Poststructuralism, in which philosophers such as Jacques Derrida proposed that structures...
