Ch. 20 Politics of Protest

1. Ch. 20 Politics of Protest

2. 20.1 Students & the Counterculture

3. I. Rise of the Youth Movement • The youth movement originated with the baby boom 1. Many were enrolled in college & had a sense of freedom & independence

4. I. Rise of the Youth Movement… • Many joined Students for a Democratic Society 1. Issued the Port Huron Statement, written by Tom Hayden 2. Protested the Vietnam War & other issues such as poverty, racism, & nuclear power

5. I. Rise of the Youth Movement… C. At the University of California at Berkeley, students formed the Free Speech Movement, led by Mario Savio 1. Students protested campus regulations, such as the inability to distribute literature on campus 2. The administration gave in, and the Supreme Court upheld students’ rights to freedom of speech & assembly on campus

6. II. The Counterculture • During the 1960s, some young Americans rejected the attitudes & beliefs of the “Establishment” & created their own counterculture 1. Known as “hippies”

7. II. The Counterculture… • Hippies wanted to build a utopia – a society that was close to nature & full of love & cooperation 1. Many lived in communes – group living arrangements 2. While some lived in rural communes, others flocked to the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco attracted thousands of hippies at the height of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s.

8. II. The Counterculture… C. Turned to sex & drugs for emotional highs Timothy Leary, a former researcher at Harvard, studied the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD. He popularized the phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

9. II. The Counterculture… • Although the movement quickly died out, it did impact some aspects of society 1. Fashion a. Wore cheap surplus clothes b. Psychedelic clothing c. Wore ethnic clothing with beads & fringes d. Long hair

10. II. The Counterculture… • Music 1. Musicians wrote heartfelt lyrics that expressed the hopes & fears of their generation 2. Musical highlight of the movement was the Woodstock Festival (1969)