Welcome to the Week 12 Blog for History 1302. I'm Professor Michael Dobe, your instructor for this course. This week's History Blog is on the topic of "Berkeley in the 60s: Students in the Rights-Conscious Long Decade." You can access the Week 12 Blog using the link provided in the Week 11 Folder located in the Blackboard Course Content Area. Berkeley was the epicenter of many of the rights movements in the long decade of the Rights Conscious Sixties. The Student Free Speech Movement, was intertwined with the African-American Civil rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, the Anti-War Movement and the Women's Movement, and the Counter-Culture. This week you will choose a scene from the documentary "Berkeley in the 60s" to comment on. Please include the name of the scene from one of the following slides in the title of you posting and reply to at least one other student's posting. Be specific in describing how you believe the scene you have chosen illustrates a significant chapter in the movement culture of the 1960s. Here are the scenes to choose from. Fight Against HUAC and the Origin of Rights Movements Martin Luther King Jr. - Link Between the Anti-HUAC Movement and Civil Rights Mario Savio - "Bodies Upon the Machine" Speech LBJ's 1964 Presidential Campaign - Free Speech Movement Tied to Anti-War Allen Ginsberg at Anti-Vietnam March Governor Ronald Reagan Attacks the "Mess at Berkeley" Counterculture and the Hippies Stop the Draft Weeek - October 1967 LBJ Will Not Run in 1968 Black Panthers, Black Power and Oakland Women's Movement as "Inevitable" or "Logical" Culmination of Broader Movement Chicago Democratic Convention (1968) Confrontation Over People's Park University Siezes People's Park Governor Reagan Lectures the Faculty Gasing Student Protesters in Sproul Square Pete Seeger Leads the Crowd in Singing We Shall Overcome I look forward to reading you postings and comments.
