Mad Men Sillfully Avoids the Civil Rights Movement

I started watching AMC’s Mad Men from the very first episode of the very first season.  That’s not meant to be proof of my hipness, that I watched Mad Men before it was popular, just a statement of fact…that it also happens to prove my hipness is purely coincidental.   Mad Men at its height was one of the best shows on television, albeit very quietly, and it long ago achieved endless critical acclaim.  Now in its sixth season, the series about a Madison Avenue advertising firm which takes place during the 1960’s finds itself nearing the end of the decade it depicts with episode 6 making it clearly 1968 on the show.  Which makes it possible to declare another great achievement of the series:  Mad Men is a show that’s painfully accurate about the 1960’s yet has almost entirely ignored the civil rights movement.