The 1960s saw many social movements emerge that challenged the status quo. The decade was defined by the civil rights movement and Black Power movement's fight for racial equality, the anti-war movement and protests against US involvement in Vietnam, the women's liberation movement's battle for gender equality and women's rights, and the rise of the counterculture that promoted sexual freedom, psychedelic drugs, and environmentalism. These diverse movements reflected the era's rising social consciousness and desire for political and social change.

1. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE
1960S

2. THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo

3. YOUTH

4. THE MOVEMENTS
• The New Left (SDS)
• Civil rights / Black Power
• Free speech / “in loco parentis”
• The Vietnam War
• The counterculture
• The women’s movement

5. READING
THE PORT HURON STATEMENT

6. THE NEW LEFT
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• “America should concentrate on its genuine social priorities: abolish
squalor, terminate neglect, and establish an environment for people
to live in with dignity and creativeness.” The Port Huron Statement,
1962

8. CIVIL RIGHTS
• SNCC and CORE

9. BLACK POWER
• "This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested
and I ain't going to jail no more! The only way we gonna
stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over.
What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!” ~
Stokely Carmichael, 1966
• “It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to
lead their own organizations.” ~ Stokely Carmichael on
Black Power

10. THE 1968 OLYMPICS
"If I win, I am American, not a
black American. But if I did
something bad, then they would
say I am a Negro. We are black
and we are proud of being
black. Black America will
understand what we did
tonight.”
~ Tommie Smith

11. AFRICAN-AMERICAN FASHION AND
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

12. FREE SPEECH
• The 1964 to 1965 academic
year, Berkeley
• “in loco parentis”

15. THE COUNTERCULTURE
• “Sex, Drugs, and Rock’n’Roll”
• “Tune in, turn on, and drop out”

16. LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS, THE
BEATLES, 1967
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow
pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newpaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds [fade out]

17. PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY, 1967
The local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn their song
Serenade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care
See Mrs. Gray she's proud today because her roses are in bloom
Mr. Green he's so serene, He's got a t.v. in every room
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Mothers complain about how hard life is
And the kids just don't understand
Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul and make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray, to places far away
I need a change of scenery
Ta Ta Ta...
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday…

18. WOODSTOCK, BY JONI MITCHEL, 1969
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him where are you going
And this he told me
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and
celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden

19. ENVIRONMENTALISM
• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, 1962
• Concerns about chemicals used in Vietnam
• A desire for sustainable living
• Pollution problems in the U.S.

21. THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE

22. COMMUNES

23. DRUGS
“A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The
scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are
the transcendence of verbal concepts, of spacetime dimensions, and of the ego
or identity.” ~ Timothy Leary, 1964

24. RELIGION
• Buddhism
• Hinduism
• Native American
Mysticism
• New Age
• New Religious
Movements

25. VIETNAM

28. KENT STATE

29. THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
• The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan, 1963
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• National Organization for Women, 1966

30. READING
SEX AND CASTE

31. PROTESTING
THE MISS
AMERICA
PAGEANT, 1968

32. CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

33. GLOBAL YOUTH UNREST & DETANTE

34. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
SIXTIES

35. YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM

36. READING
THE SHARON STATEMENT

37. THE JESUS PEOPLE

38. CONCLUSION