5th Period 4/6/09

1960s counter culture
-small number of people embraced complete counter culture. Media gave hippies more press than it may have deserved
-they rejected traditional ideas of style and sexuality
-media focused on drugs-marijuana and LSD, communal living arrangements, and folk rock music
Middle Class consumers
-picked up on movement, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane popular bands along with Rolling Stones and Beatles
-movies- The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Wild in the Streets
-controversy grew as the downsides became known
-a 1967 march on pentagon crystallized controversy
Civil rights movement changes
-goes from civil rights to black power
-MLK's nonviolent approach lost its appeal with young blacks
Black Power
-white conservatives called for strong commitment to law and order
-social activists called for government intervention
-1965 Watts riots in LA, 34 dead and hundreds of businesses and homes destroyed
Malcom X
-black power movement. was different from MLK
-integration unworkable
-called for renewed pride in cultural heritage
-once a member of Elizah Muhammed's Nation of Islam but he established own Organization of Afro-American Unity
-assassinated in 1965 by members of Nation of Islam
young people carried on
-embraced identity black
-black power replaced freedom now
-black is beautiful
-stokely charmichael, head of SNCC in 1966 and members of Black Panthers criticized King's SCLC for going too slow
1968
-civil rights act of 1968 passed Congress against background of changing movement
1. extended guarantees of bill of rights to american indians
2. addressed racial discrimination in housing through fair housing act
3. declared it a crime to travel from one state to another to incite a riot
-TET offensive in Jan 1968 shakes americans
-National Liberation Front(vietcong) joined N. vietnam forces in series of coordinated surprise attacks throughout s. vietnam.
-a military defeat for north, TET was serious psychological defeat for U.S.
-Pres. Johnson announced not running for reelection-unheard of
-MLK assassinated and brought about violence
-Robert Kennedy assassinated on night of victory in CA Democratice Primary elections
-Democrat national nominating convention in chicago disrupted by anti-Vietnam protests followed by police violence
-George wallace, segregationist gov. of Alabama ran as President as leader of American Independent Party
-Picked up 46 electoral votes from deep south which severely hurt the democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey