20th October 1968 Print Newspaper

The Labour Party at the time made it easier to have a strike.
Strike was for women's rights for equal pay.
Lead to an equal pay.
This cover shows when the women's rights were at the for front.
At a time when women were fighting to be heard.
The article shows a time of feminism and reflects it was a decade of people who stood up for themselves.
North Vietnam was communist so America announced that they would bomb it. This war went on for 27 years. It was the first war that had less bias coverage which lead into massive protest in America and The UK that the war should be over. It was the first was England wasn't apart of. The protests reached a level where a Monk set himself on fire and burned alive to prove the point.
Britain won second Gold medal at the Mexico Olympics. The 1968 Mexico Olympics was best known for Neil Leifers famous picture of the 'Black Power Salute'. The second Gold medal was won by a veterinary surgeon.
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