Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll U.S. History Mr. Johnson

ObjectiveObjectiveObjectiveObjective – Identify major social movements including, but not limited to, those involving young women, young people and the environment, and evaluate the impact of these movements in the United States’ society.

Terms & People Major Concepts Feminism Environmentalism Pop culture Counterculture Key Terms Women’s Liberation National Organization for Women (NOW) Gloria Steinem Phyllis Schlafly Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Roe v. Wade, 1973 British Invasion (Beatles) Elvis Presley Haight-Ashbury Woodstock Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Cesar Chavez American Indian Movement (AIM) Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

1950s Culture

Baby Boom

Suburbs – “Little Boxes”

The Affluent SocietyThe Affluent SocietyThe Affluent SocietyThe Affluent Society Post-WWII economic boom Private sector wealth Public sector poverty

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Search for purpose in a world dominated by business Materialism vs. meaning

Death of a Salesman Play by Arthur Miller Lack of fulfillment from materialistic life “You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel. A man is not a piece of fruit!”

Catcher in the Rye Adolescent angst, alienation, sexuality

The BeatsThe BeatsThe BeatsThe Beats Allen Ginsberg

HowlHowlHowlHowl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz…

James DeanJames DeanJames DeanJames Dean “Rebel Without a Cause”

Berry & Presley “Jailhouse Rock”“Johnny B. Goode”

British InvasionBritish InvasionBritish InvasionBritish Invasion The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 “I Want to Hold Your Hand” Other bands –Rolling Stones –The Who –The Yardbirds

Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Revolutionized American rock music Woodstock, 1969 “Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”

Visual Arts

Pop Art Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein

Andy Warhol

Roy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein

Roy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein

Op Art

Psychedelic Art

HippieCultureHippieCultureHippieCultureHippieCulture

“Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty”

Haight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-Ashbury Center of San Francisco’s hippie/drug/art culture (hippie = counterculture) Summer of Love, 1967 –“If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you're going to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there.”

Haight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-Ashbury

LSD & Marijuana

Woodstock, 1969

Richie Havens Swami Satchidananda Ravi Shankar Joan Baez Santana Grateful Dead Janis Joplin The Who Jefferson Airplane Crosby, Stills & Nash Jimi Hendrix Creedence Clearwater Revival

Woodstock, 1969

Abbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman

Altamont ConcertAltamont ConcertAltamont ConcertAltamont Concert “Woodstock of the West Coast,” 1969 Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed

Charles Manson “Manson Family” cult Serial murders by “flower children”

Nixon Presidency “Law and Order” “Silent Majority”

New Left

Vietnam War

Anti-War Protests

SDSSDSSDSSDS

Weather UndergroundWeather UndergroundWeather UndergroundWeather Underground

Women’s Liberation

Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique, 1963 Womens’ search for identity and purpose outside of home Beginning of women’s movement

FeminismFeminismFeminismFeminism Women’s rights & equality Women’s liberation – radical feminism

Helen Gurley BrownHelen Gurley BrownHelen Gurley BrownHelen Gurley Brown Sex and the Single Girl, 1965 –Relationships and sex advice –Career and financial advice Editor of Cosmopolitan for 32 years

Masters & JohnsonMasters & JohnsonMasters & JohnsonMasters & Johnson The Human Sexual Response, 1966 –Laboratory observations –Sex as healthy and natural

JobsJobsJobsJobs White Collar Lawyers Businessmen Blue Collar Mechanics Assembly line Pink Collar Secretaries Nurses

NOWNOWNOWNOW Founded in 1966 Betty Friedan, president Goals –Equality – “glass ceiling” –Stop violence against women –Reproductive rights

Gloria Steinem Editor of Ms. Magazine Women are forced to choose between marriage and career “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

ERAERAERAERA Equal Rights Amendment Never ratified “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

Phyllis Schlafly Opposition to ERA –Drafting of women –Unisex bathrooms –Schlafly supported traditional roles for women ERA failed by a narrow margin of states

Failure of the ERA

ReproductiveRightsReproductiveRightsReproductiveRightsReproductiveRights

Birth Control Pill

Roe v. Wade, 1973 Abortion is covered by the “right to privacy” –1 st trimester - no restrictions –2 nd trimester – some restrictions –3 rd trimester – many restrictions Controversial decision

Abortion DebateAbortion DebateAbortion DebateAbortion Debate

Abortion DebateAbortion DebateAbortion DebateAbortion Debate

Gay Rights

Life in the Closet

Stonewall Riots NYC, 1969 Police raid gay bar Riots continue for 5 days Beginning of gay rights organizations

Gay Liberation

Harvey Milk First openly gay elected official in America S.F. city supervisor, 1977 Assassinated in 1978 “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

Latinos&AmericanIndiansLatinos&AmericanIndiansLatinos&AmericanIndiansLatinos&AmericanIndians

Mendez v. Westminster 1947 Integration of Mexican- American school children

BracerosBracerosBracerosBraceros 1942 – temporary agricultural work program

Operation Wetback 1954 INS deportation of illegal Latino immigrants

Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965 Abolished 1924 National Origins Act Skills & family connections

Cesar ChavezCesar ChavezCesar ChavezCesar Chavez Latinos/Hispanics United Farm Workers Boycotts

Indian Termination Policy House Concurrent Resolution 108 Ending federal supervision of Native American tribes Reservation autonomy

U.S. v. Wheeler House Concurrent Resolution 108 Ending federal supervision of Native American tribes ……………

AIMAIMAIMAIM American Indian Movement Autonomy over reservations Confrontations with FBI/law enforcement

Indians at Alcatraz

AIM at Wounded Knee

Buffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-Marie Native American folk/rock musician “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”

EnvironmentalMovementEnvironmentalMovementEnvironmentalMovementEnvironmentalMovement

Tragedy of the Commons

Rachel Carson Pesticides DDT banned

EnvironmentalismEnvironmentalismEnvironmentalismEnvironmentalism

Clean Air Act Enacted in 1963 –Emissions standards –Sulfur removal from smokestacks Many later amendments

Clean Water ActClean Water ActClean Water ActClean Water Act Enacted in 1972 –Water quality testing –Sewage treatment plants Penalties for violators

Sources of Pollution

Sewage Treatment

Earth DayEarth DayEarth DayEarth Day April 22, 1970

EPAEPAEPAEPA Environmental Protection Agency, 1970