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The Black Eagle became the symbol of the United Farm Workers in 1962. The colors were chosen by Cesar Chavez, a community organizer who led strikes throughout the 1960's on behalf of farm workers. The majority of farm workers were Latin American. As such, they were subject to racial discrimination and anti-immigration sentiment in the communities where they worked. The most famous of these protests were the Delano grape strikes which lasted for five years between 1965 and 1970, during which more than 1,000 laborers picketed for higher wages and health benefits. These rights were eventually granted when the grape growers signed contracts with the UFW, affecting more than 10,000 farm workers nationwide.

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Stokely Carmichael was still a freshman at Howard University the first time he was arrested for participating in the Freedom Rides, an effort led by the Congress of Racial Equality to desegregate interstate buses. He later went on to serve as the chairman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and originated the phrase "Black Power" while protesting James Meredith's attempted assassination in the March Against Fear of 1966. In 1965, Carmichael worked with residents of Lowndes County in Alabama to increase the number of black voters from 70 to 2,600. In order to distance himself from the majority-white Democratic Party, he created the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, and chose the black panther as its mascot, which later inspired the Black Panther Party, of which he was made Honorary Prime Minister in 1968. Carmichael was the subject of a smear campaign by the FBI which damaged his relationship with the BPP and the SNCC. In the second half of his life, Carmichael moved to Africa and worked with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, where he remained until his death in 1998.

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The National Council for Jewish Women (NCJW) was founded in 1893 by Hannah G. Solomon after she and other Jewish women were prevented from playing a substantive role in the Chicago World's Fair. Initially, the council worked to help women regain connection with their Jewish faith and to assist Jewish immigrants in becoming self-sufficient. Throughout the early twentieth century, the NCJW broadened its scope to other social justice issues, such as arguing for an anti-lynching law, and passing the Nineteenth Amendment. Current campaigns include an attempt to end domestic violence, a push for wider contraceptive education and access, and a campaign to safeguard voting rights for all Americans.

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By the mid 1960's, many in the U.S. had become disillusioned with the promises of progress made by John F. Kennedy upon his election. In 1964, when the draft was introduced for the Vietnam War, many younger Americans joined the anti-war movement and began protesting supported by prominent intellectuals and musicians of the day. These protests combined with the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, The Feminine Mystique and second-wave feminism, and the Stonewall Riots at the end of the decade created a strong opposition to the establishment at large. "Power to the People," became the rallying cry of the 1960's. On the possibilities and shortcomings of people's power, Walter Lippmann wrote, "What then are the true boundaries of the people's power?...They can elect the government. They can remove it."

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Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is an international issue that many find controversial. The notion that a government can have a right to kill someone, regardless of the reason, is abhorrent to many social and political groups. Some justice systems conduct unfair trials, may execute someone for political gain, or have corrupt or discriminatory court systems based on opposition to race, religion, or sexuality. Accused may be convicted of a crime, but found out to be innocent later. The death penalty does not allow mistakes to be fixed since those wronged are deceased.

Excluding the undisclosed numbers from some countries, 690 people were executed in 2018 under the death penalty. By the end of 2018, a total of 106 countries had completely abolished the death penalty and organizations like Amnesty International hope to grow that number. Once again excluding the undisclosed countries, 75% of all executions take place in just four countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and Iraq.

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Concerned about the political and economic influence of the church, and fearful of any alternative belief system challenging the primacy of the Communist party, leaders of the Soviet Union worked to limit the role of the Jewish religion in Russian society. During the 1960s, organizers drew attention to the plight of the persecuted religion through an international campaign, encouraging victims to emigrate.

The Russian government relaxed its restrictions on expressions of Jewish identity and Jewish culture when President Mikhail Gorbachev instituted Glasnost. Since the mid-1980s, the ban on teaching Hebrew has been lifted and many facilities for the rituals of the faith have been opened in Russia.

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In August 1975, after being arrested for breaking and entering, as well as larceny, Joann Little, a 20-year-old African American woman in Beaufort, North Carolina, killed a deputy sheriff in self-defense after he attempted to rape her. Little fled but was later arrested and put on trial for first-degree murder. The Joann Little Defense Committee was established by the Prisoner Solidarity Committee, a unit of the Workers World Party, which organized rallies, marches, petitioning and more in major cities across the country, in hopes of bringing awareness to Little’s case and expedient justice in the form of a dismissal and release. Other branches of the WWP (including Philadelphia), the Winston-Salem, North Carolina branch of the Black Panther Party, and many other organization joined in calling for the release of Little and for action around women’s rights, racial and sexual inequality in the criminal justice system, police brutality, and capital punishment, among other things. On August 22, 1975, over a thousand people demonstrated outside the courthouse where Little was being tried; that day a jury declared Joann Little not guilty to much celebration.

More recently, comparisons have been made between Little’s case and that of Cyntoia Brown, who spent 15 years in jail for a death resulting from self-defense. She was granted clemency on January 7, 2019, by Governor Bill Haslam.

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Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist and writer with his most famous work, a satirical comic strip, Feiffer (originally named Sick Sick Sick). Before he was an established cartoonist, he was an apprentice whose boss had told Feiffer his work was lousy, but hired him anyway. For forty years (1956-1997), he displayed his work for The Village Voice as the staff cartoonist. Feiffer took a public stance in opposition to Vietnam War with his Enough campaign.

In the late 1960's, the war in Vietnam (started in 1955) started to lose popular consensus that Americans should be fighting there. The war had gone on longer than the American people were told, and the number of deaths kept climbing. Feeling like their opinions were not being heard, multiple peace movements popped up around the country with the intent to be non-violent, but would sometimes end with altercations and arrests by police. Despite the growing disapproval for the war it would not officially end until 1975.