lecture 14: protest movements

THE MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960S

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo

YOUTH

THE MOVEMENTS

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

READINGTHE PORT HURON STATEMENT

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

CIVIL RIGHTS

• SNCC and CORE

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

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

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FASHION AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

FREE SPEECH

• The 1964 to 1965 academic year, Berkeley• “in loco parentis”

THE COUNTERCULTURE

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

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS, THE BEATLES, 1967

Picture yourself in a boat on a riverWith tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody calls you, you answer quite slowlyA girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and greenTowering over your headLook for the girl with the sun in her eyesAnd she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsAaaaahhhhh...

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountainWhere rocking horse people eat marshmellow piesEveryone smiles as you drift past the flowersThat grow so incredibly high

Newpaper taxis appear on the shoreWaiting to take you awayClimb in the back with your head in the cloudsAnd you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsAaaaahhhhh...

Picture yourself on a train in a stationWith plasticine porters with looking glass tiesSuddenly someone is there at the turnstyleThe girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsAaaaahhhhh...Lucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsAaaaahhhhh...Lucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamondsLucy in the sky with diamonds [fade out]

PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY, 1967

The local rock group down the streetIs trying hard to learn their songSerenade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn

Another Pleasant Valley SundayCharcoal burning everywhereRows of houses that are all the sameAnd no one seems to care

See Mrs. Gray she's proud today because her roses are in bloomMr. Green he's so serene, He's got a t.v. in every room

Another Pleasant Valley SundayHere in status symbol landMothers complain about how hard life isAnd the kids just don't understand

Creature comfort goalsThey only numb my soul and make it hard for me to seeMy thoughts all seem to stray, to places far awayI need a change of scenery

Ta Ta Ta...

Another Pleasant Valley SundayCharcoal burning everywhereAnother Pleasant Valley SundayHere in status symbol land

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday…

WOODSTOCK, BY JONI MITCHEL, 1969

I came upon a child of GodHe was walking along the roadAnd I asked him where are you goingAnd this he told meI'm going on down to Yasgur's farmI'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll bandI'm going to camp out on the landI'm going to try an' get my soul free 

We are stardustWe are goldenAnd we've got to get ourselvesBack to the garden

Then can I walk beside youI have come here to lose the smogAnd I feel to be a cog in something turningWell maybe it is just the time of yearOr maybe it's the time of manI don't know who I amBut you know life is for learning

We are stardustWe are goldenAnd we've got to get ourselvesBack to the garden

By the time we got to WoodstockWe were half a million strongAnd everywhere there was song and celebrationAnd I dreamed I saw the bombersRiding shotgun in the skyAnd they were turning into butterfliesAbove our nation

We are stardustBillion year old carbonWe are goldenCaught in the devil's bargainAnd we've got to get ourselvesback to the garden

ENVIRONMENTALISM

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

THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE

COMMUNES

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

RELIGION

• Buddhism• Hinduism• Native American

Mysticism• New Age• New Religious

Movements

VIETNAM

KENT STATE

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

READINGSEX AND CASTE

PROTESTING THE MISS AMERICA

PAGEANT, 1968

CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

GLOBAL YOUTH UNREST & DETANTE

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIXTIES

YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM

READINGTHE SHARON STATEMENT

THE JESUS PEOPLE

CONCLUSION