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People often confuse the fact that while blacks voted overwhelmingly for certain Democrat presidential candidates as far back as FDR, most still self-identified as Republicans and voted for GOP candidates in lesser races more often than not until the mid to late ‘60s. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was the beginning of an irreversible trend to Democrat from Republican of blacks generally, primarily because the GOP presidential candidate of that year, Barry Goldwater, had voted against the legislation while LBJ had signed it into law.

The statement that the greatest movie ever made was The Great Escape is merely an opinion, yet it is one held by a lot of American males who grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

If the author was born in 1963, he would still have been a kid in 1975 when Atari Pong came out.

Mother Teresa’s name was well known to people all over the world before she won the Nobel.

While abortion may have been a growing political concern in the ‘60s, and while the Supreme Court did indeed decide the Roe Vs. Wade case in favor of abortion rights advocates in 1973, those facts do not suggest that the majority of people in the U.S. were “pro-choice” during that era. They were not.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was the beginning of an irreversible trend to Democrat from Republican of blacks generally, primarily because the GOP presidential candidate of that year, Barry Goldwater, had voted against the legislation while LBJ had signed it into law.

Seems they overlooked the fact that it was Republicans, especially conservatives such as Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) who saved the Civil Rights act from being filibustered to death and that Barry Goldwater had pushed for the integration of the Phoenix airport in the 1950's.

The last time republicans won the black vote for president was in 1932, I also think that few of us knew who Mother Theresa was in the early 1960s, but Dr. Albert Schweitzer was a huge international hero of the time, before he was 'erased'.

Here is a chart for black, party ID.