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DAYS OF RAGE, DAYS OF FEAR 1964-1970, ESPECIALLY 1968

DAYS OF RAGE, DAYS OF FEAR 1964-1970, ESPECIALLY 1968. EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: WHAT WENT WRONG IN THE U.S. IN THE SECOND PART OF THE 1960s? WAS 1968 THE WORST YEAR IN OUR HISTORY?. BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

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DAYS OF RAGE, DAYS OF FEAR 1964-1970, ESPECIALLY 1968

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  1. DAYS OF RAGE, DAYS OF FEAR 1964-1970, ESPECIALLY 1968 EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

  2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: • WHAT WENT WRONG IN THE U.S. IN THE SECOND PART OF THE 1960s? • WAS 1968 THE WORST YEAR IN OUR HISTORY?

  3. BLACK POWER MOVEMENT • PORTRAYED BY GOVERNMENT AS SCARY BLACK MILITANTS (ON FBI COINTELPRO LIST) • MARTIN LUTHER KING'S NONVIOLENCE STRATEGY GOT LAWS PASSED – BUT THE LAWS DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING • INSTITUTIONAL RACISM BEGAN TO END, BUT SOCIAL RACISM DIDN'T AND NEITHER DID POVERTY FOR MOST BLACK PEOPLE (LEGACY OF SLAVERY)

  4. MALCOLM X (1925-65) – "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" • LEFT NATION OF ISLAM, BECAME SUNNI MUSLIM, DISAVOWED BLACK RACISM! • MET WITH CASTRO, NASSER – ON FBI LIST!

  5. MALCOLM X QUOTATIONS: • "I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation." • "A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself." • 'we are nonviolent with people who are violent with us."

  6. ASSASSINATED, FEBRUARY 21, 1967 – APPARENTLY BY NATION OF ISLAM

  7. SNCC UNDER STOKELY CARMICHAEL AND H. RAP BROWN: "BLACK POWER": "IT IS a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community."

  8. BLACK PANTHER PARTY, FOUNDED 1966 IN OAKLAND, CA. (MAOIST) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; HUEY P. NEWTON (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, BOBBY SEALE (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and LITTLE BOBBY HUTTON (Treasurer)

  9. BLACK PANTHER 10-POINT PROGRAM • "1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. • 2. WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. • 3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. • 4. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. • 5. WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE • . . . TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY.

  10. 6. WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. 8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION. 9. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY, AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. 10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.

  11. RACE RIOTS IN MAJOR CITIES 1965 – 1967 • CAUSES: • UNDERLYING – LACK OF PROGRESS UNDER CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, > 200 YEARS OF DISCRIMINATION, AND POVERTY (LEGACY OF SLAVERY) • SPECIFIC: CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN INNER CITIES • ALSO IT WAS HAPPENING ELSEWHERE

  12. THE WORST: WATTS, L.A., AUGUST 11-15, 1965 – "BURN, BABY, BURN" • PEOPLE OF WATTS V. 14,000 NATIONAL GUARDSMEN • 34 KILLED, 1032 INJURED, 3438 ARRESTED • AND A NEIGHBORHOOD DESTROYED

  13. THE SECOND-WORST: NEWARK, N.J., JULY 12-17, 1967 • PEOPLE V. NATIONAL GUARD • 26 DEAD, ≈ 800 INJURED, NEIGHBORHOOD DESTROYED

  14. Kerner Commission Report, 1967: ""Our nation is moving toward two societies; one Black, one White separate and unequal." "Our nation is moving toward two societies; one Black, one White separate and unequal."

  15. THE ESCALATION OF THE WAR

  16. THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT/ THE NEW LEFT • STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS) • FOUNDED 1962 (PORT HURON STATEMENT) – CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ETC. • BERKELEY FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT AND SIT-IN, 1964 • 1965: BOMBING OF N. VIETNAM  SDS "TEACH-INS" AND DEMONSTRATIONS ON CAMPUSES NATIONWIDE

  17. INCREASING CAMPUS RADICALIZATION/ SPLINTERING • SDS VAGUELY MARXIST • YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE/ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY – TROTSKYIST • PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY – MAOIST • AND MANY, MANY OTHERS • NATIONAL MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE – "THE MOBE" -- 1967 – 70 – UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR ALL

  18. TOM HAYDEN, A FOUNDER OF SDS AND LEADER OF ANTIWAR MOVEMENT MARRIED JANE FONDA, 1970 LATER A CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATOR

  19. ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS

  20. COUNTERCULTURE FORMER HARVARD PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR TIMOTHY LEARY, THE "GURU" OF LSD

  21. ALLEN GINSBURG IN THE 1960s. PEACE!

  22. YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY (YIPPIES) -- ABSURDISTS

  23. HIPPIES AND FREAKS

  24. "SUMMER OF LOVE," 1967 – NATIONWIDE • " If you're going to San Francisco,be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...If you're going to San Francisco,You're gonna meet some gentle people there"

  25. BE-IN!

  26. COMMUNES – BROOK FARM WITH DRUGS

  27. KEN KESEY AND THE MERRY PRANKSTERS -- FURTHUR

  28. JOHN AND YOKO

  29. JIMI HENDRIX

  30. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY

  31. 1968

  32. APRIL 4, 1968: MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATED -- HE WAS ON THE FBI LIST! JAMES EARL RAY, THE ASSASSIN

  33. KING ASSASSINATION  RACE RIOTS NATIONWIDE

  34. Columbia University: SDS Take Over, APRIL 23-30, 1968

  35. MARCH 12, 1968: PEACE CANDIDATE EUGENE MC CARTHY NEARLY BEAT LBJ IN NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY (7% SPREAD) MANY YOUNG VOLUNTEERS WORKED FOR "CLEAN GENE"

  36. MARCH 16, 1968: ROBERT F. KENNEDY ENTERED DEMOCRATIC RACE INSPIRED MANY MORE YOUNG VOLUNTEERS

  37. MARCH 31, 1968: LBJ WITHDREW!

  38. JUNE 5, 1968: RFK WON DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND WAS ASSASSINATED BY PALESTINIAN SIRHAN SIRHAN FIRST ACT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN U.S.?

  39. AUGUST, 1968: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN CHICAGO – "POLICE RIOT" AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS (MOBE, YIPPIES) AND REPORTERS

  40. WHOM DID THE FEDS ARREST AND PROSECUTE FOR THE RIOT? THE CHICAGO SEVEN, INCLUDING HAYDEN, HOFFMAN AND RUBIN + BOBBY SEALE

  41. THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE: VP HUBERT HUMPHREY THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT WERE NOT HUMPHREY FANS

  42. 1968 Candidates NIXON, HUMPHREY, AND SEGREGATIONIST GEORGE WALLACE

  43. ISSUES: • VIETNAM • LAW AND ORDER • CIVIL RIGHTS

  44. "NIXON'S THE ONE!" • "PEACE WITH HONOR" = • "SECRET" PEACE PLAN • LAW AND ORDER • REPRESENT "THE • SILENT MAJORITY"

  45. 1968 RESULTS

  46. 1968

  47. 1969: WEATHERMAN (LATER WEATHER UNDERGROUND) DAYS OF RAGE "YOU DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS." DYLAN MIDDLE-CLASS, EDUCATED KIDS!

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