The Decade of the 1960s

The decade of the sixties was a national roller coaster ride of great hope and terrible despair." (Kronenwetter ,11). This was the time in America when American society began to influence events that still shape our modern society today. It was a time of President Johnson's inaugural address when he declared an "unconditional war on poverty". During the sixties African Americans finally freed themselves from segregation, just as they were freed form slavery over a century …

…years to assert this program. They would have to set a dispatching system in which calls will be wired to a human source that would direct them to immediate help. In addition to the system the article stressed the importance of this number being free of charge from any location. Users would not even have to pay a single dime. This system paved the way for the new system in which a 911 call is free.