1. Tests back
Business

2. “The 60’s were a reaction to the 50’s”
What might this mean?
What comes to mind when you think of “The 60’s”?
What can you say about the sixties from the clips?
“The 60’s were a reaction to the 50’s”

3. How did Americans and America change in the 1960s? Domestic Issues
How did the American people call for change at home during the Cold War?
How did Americans and America change in the 1960s?
Domestic Issues

4. A counterculture is a subculture that rejects key values/beliefs of the broader culture
What’s a current-day counterculture?
“Counterculture”

5. Counterculture Movement in 60’s
Young, middle-class movement disappointed with America (baby boomers now teenagers)
Turned backs on traditional society
Rejected conformity, traditional education/jobs/clothes, etc…
Tried to establish new society based on peace and love

6. “Hippie” culture Believed American society was empty
Materialism
Technology
War
“Tune in, turn on, drop out”
“Hippie” culture

7. “Hippie” culture New Culture: Rock n roll Unusual clothing
Sexual freedom
Illegal drug use

8. Generational Divide
Older generations (parents, grandparents, etc) disapproved of new culture
Music- “Music was better in my day,” “This is just noise,” “This music is a bad influence,” etc..
Changing norms- different clothes, protests, values (“free love”), religious freedom = judged and believed downfall of American values

9. Protests- women’s rights/”liberation”
Feminism- belief that women should have economic, political, social equality with men
Workplace inequality:
“men’s” and “women’s” work
Women’s work paid poorly
Wage gap
Harassment
Healthcare
“right to choose”
Paid maternity leave

10. Protests- women’s rights
Successes:
Title Nine, ban on gender discrimination in education program/activities (sports, colleges)
Roe v. Wade, federal law, women have right to choose to have an abortion (until a point)
Healthcare issue- when illegal, abortions happened, but were more dangerous
States found ways to limit access

11. Protests- Anti-War Many young people protested the war in Vietnam Why?
“Vietnam conflict is a civil war”
“South Vietnamese no better than Communists”
“The US shouldn’t control the world”
“The war is morally unjust”
Protests- Anti-War

12. Protests- war Antiwar movement Resistance Protests songs
Burning draft cards
Illegal
Fleeing to Canada to avoid draft
Protests- war

13. Protests- civil rights
Important Events:
March on Washington, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer, 1964
Registered black Americans to vote
Protests- civil rights

14. Protests- Civil Rights
Racial violence in cities
General violence, police brutality, etc
Malcolm X- racial pride, supported (armed) self-defense
Black Panthers- political party formed to fight police brutality
Protests- Civil Rights

15. Protest posters Choose a topic
Women’s rights
Civil rights
Anti-war
Create a poster used at a protest event for that issue in the 60’s
Protest posters