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Student Protests 1960's
The document summarizes the rise of student protests and counterculture movements in the 1960s. It describes the formation of groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers who advocated for grassroots activism, political education, and community empowerment. Major events that fueled protest included the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964-1965, opposition to the Vietnam War through demonstrations and teach-ins, and the Black Power movement calling for racial pride and self-defense. The decade was marked by rising tensions over civil rights, the war, and authoritarianism that sparked widespread unrest on college campuses and in cities.
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- 1. The Rise ofStudent Protests and the Counterculture
- 2. Letter to theNew Left • Argued for a new left ideology moving away from labor issues and toward opposing => alienation, anomie and authoritarianism • Shifted from traditional leftism to the values of the “counterculture” • Internationalist • Agency no longer w/in proletariat, rather young intellectuals = new agent of change
- 3. SDS • 1962 PortHuron • Sociology of Participatory Democracy – Grass Roots Activism – Political Education Program (PEP) – Peace Research and Education Project (PREP) – Anti-War Teachins • Idea the individual citizens could help make those social decisions determining the quality and direction of their lives • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRoJoflUH4k
- 4. Free Speech Movement Berkeley1964-1965 • university administration banned on-campus political activities • Protests to acknowledge students’ right to free speech and academic freedom • Opposed “establishment • http://youtu.be/PhFvZRT7Ds0
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- 7. Black Power (1966) StokelyCarmichael and SNCC (Spring 1966): Black Power Speech “It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.” • http://youtu.be/cjvdHaOqiYI • Rise in urban violence leads to radical alternatives
- 8. Black Power andthe Panthers (1966) • SNCC/SDS Black Grassroots Organizations: Racial Pride – Self help against poverty, health clinics, free breakfast for children, educational programs, food co-ops • October 1966: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form The Black Panthers for Self Defense – Called for community control and armed self defense to protect residents • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnc2KjS7Vw
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- 12. Hell no, wewon’t go!
- 13. Democratic Convention in Chicago,1968 Student Protestors at Univ. of CA in Berkeley, 1968 Anti-War Demonstrations
- 14. “Hanoi Jane” Jane Fonda:Traitor?
- 15. Anti-War Demonstrations May4, 1970 4 students shot dead. 11 students wounded Kent State University Jackson State University May 10, 1970 2 dead; 12 wounded
- 17. YIPPIES (Youth InternationalParty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TphuwosYrQ
- 18. 1968 • Cronkite TurningPoint: http://youtu.be/Nn4w-ud-TyE • Assassination of Martin Luther King • The Assassination of Robert Kennedy • Violence at the Democratic National Convention http://youtu.be/aUKzSsVmnpY • The Tet Offensive
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- 21. Tune in, turnon, drop out! http://youtu.be/eYKY2lpxMg8
- 22. The Bed In(Amsterdam, 1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zda7abQCmPs http://youtu.be/4u3u16bFEYU
- 23. And Babies Posterof Mai Lai Massacre (1969) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spmDYUeIl00
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- 26. Hard Hat Riots(May 1970)
- 27. Turn Against theWar – The Pullout • Kent State May 1970 • Exposure of the Pentagon Papers and the trial Nixon vs. The New York Times (1971) • The continued death rate of soldiers despite pullout of troops • COINTELPRO exposed (April 1971) • Lieutenant Calley convicted in Mai Lai Massacre Court Marshall (November 1971) • Disillusionment of Nixon’s Efforts => War Powers Act (1973) • Fall of Saigon
- 28. What is thelegacy of the 1960’s on American political and social developments?