Monday, APRIL 06, 2009

1960s counter culture
-very few people embraced
-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
-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 of counterculture became known
-a 1967 march on pentagon crystallized controversy
Civil rights movement changes
-goes from civil rights to black power
-Martin Luther King, Jr’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
-different approach than MLK-integration unworkable
-called for renewed pride in cultural heritage
-once a member of Elijah Muhammed's Nation of Islam
-established Organization of Afro-American Unity
-assassinated in 1965 by members of Nation of Islam
young people carried on
-embraced black identity
-“black power” replaced “freedom now”
-black is beautiful
-stokely carmichael, head of SNCC in 1966 and members of Black Panthers criticized MLK'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. vietnamese 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. This was 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 and subsequent police violence
-George wallace, segregationist gov. of Alabama created American Independent Party and ran for President
-Picked up 46 electoral votes from deep south which severely hurt the democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey