The Turbulent 60s

1. The Turbulent 60s

2. Discontent Characterized the late 1960s: A SOCIAL CRISIS Racism Civil Rights Movement Cold War Vietnam War Feminist Movement Rebellious youth culture

3. The Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in 60s with white northern students attracted to cause White students involved in sit-ins, Freedom Rides & Mississippi Summer Project white students inspired to make changes, which resulted in a reform movement known as New Left.

4. The New Left reform movement influenced by Civil Rights Movement & protested by picketing and holding demonstrations on college campuses

5. Students for a Democratic Society Tom Hayden, a political activist from Michigan helped with organization the Students for a Democratic Society. Hayden involved in Civil Rights Movement & he was beaten by a white man during one of the Freedom Rides

6. SDS was a group of disenchanted young people who wanted to give a voice to their beliefs, which included exposing racial injustice, nuclear war, & general decline in quality of human life. SDS had its greatest impact on college campuses where discontent about society was rising.

7. Philosophy of the SDS philosophy of SDS urged participatory democracy idea that all Americans, not just a small elite, should decide major economic, political, and social issues that shaped the nation

8. SDS criticized American society for its focus on career advancement, material possessions, military strength, and racism. 1968 ~100,000 young people around the nation had joined SDS.

9. The Free Speech Movement one of the 1st signs of student rebellion; occurred in the fall of 1964 at the University of California in Berkeley A small group of radical students resisted university efforts to deny them a place to solicit volunteers and funds for off-campus causes.

10. This movement brought on turmoil on that campus and other campus�s around the country because they were denied the right to protest on campus. They protested by using sit-ins and demonstrations.

11. The Counterculture Rise of radicalism on college campuses coincided with emergence of counterculture. counterculture was a group of young people who rejected traditional values they were known as hippies

12. Hippies displayed their contempt by wearing long hair, shabby or flamboyant clothing, using unconventional speech, and they flaunted conventional standards of behavior. They were attracted to drugs, particularly marijuana and hallucinogens

13. Behavior of the Counterculture These young people condemned materialism, mocked convention, rejected authority, joined communes, enjoyed rock music, & experimented with drugs & sex.

14. counterculture challenged nature of American society and called for a more �natural� world in which men and women would live in closer harmony with nature and would have greater freedom to vent their instincts and emotions.

15. Feminism in the 1960s women launched new feminist movement Women continue to expand their rights as gender discrimination was embedded in American life Even though women were granted right to vote in 1920, they were still discriminated in society

16. Major goal of feminists such as Betty Friedan and the National Organization of Women (NOW) had a goal of equal opportunity for women and ending gender discrimination. Women earned 59 cents for every dollar a man earned for the same job CR Act, 1965 Title VII prohibited discrimination based on gender

17. Women elected to political office Radicals of the movement favored more dramatic protests; burning their bras Some women opposed movement and wanted to continue their traditional roles in society

18. Reproductive Rights 1960: The Pill introduced; controversial; added to more sexual activity without the worry of becoming pregnant Abortion issues hit forefront in news: Roe v. Wade (1973) It established that it was the woman�s right to have an abortion under specific conditions