70's Essay Questions.

Essay Answers.

1. One thing that is changing that Archie isn't used to is that, the minorities are becoming more accepted in daily life. The way that he grew up, things were different. African-Americans were not treated equal. In that time period the environment that Archie was used to was changing so fast. He has a hard time understanding how people could actually change like that. When Sammy Davis Jr. took a drink from his glass, Archie went to take a drink and then he remembered that an African-American also drank off the same glass. It scared him a little bit and he sent his friend way. He wasn't sure how to react.

2. With the whole society change, and how the younger people are growing up in it, they get used to it. There parents don't influence them as much as their friends do. The way they are being influenced is that it's okay to like people of the minorities. Also the way that news get's around the world. They know that people around the world are hearing about it, and starting to loosed up.

3. African-American people were being able to go wherever they wanted and not be criticized about there skin color. In the past many white's would yell at them and harass them. The 60's and 70's were a fast changing period for the social situation in America.