1964 has been called “the year when change was inescapable, the moment that fundamentally altered the kind of nation America would become,” “the kind of watershed that you very rarely see in history.” (“1964: The Year that Changed America.”) But some of the events portrayed in the film, “1964,” actually had their roots in 1963. The Feminine Mystique, for example, was published in 1963, though it reached the bestseller list in 1964. And certainly, some important events happened in 1963! Consider what you know of 1963, including the events memorialized in “50 Years Ago: The World in 1963,”
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Then write an essay evaluating the relative importance of 1963 and 1964 to the history of the United States. Was either or both “the year that changed America?”