1. From Turning the Other Cheek to Black Power
Race, Rights, and Riots

2. Civic Nationalism
Civic Nationalism: a belief in the fundamental equality of human beings, in every individual’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and in a democratic government that derives its legitimacy from the people’s consent.

3. Racial Nationalism
Racial Nationalism: a belief that conceives of America in ethnoracial terms, as a people held together by common blood and skin color and by an inherited fitness for self-government. From the perspective of this racialized ideal, Africans, Asians, nonwhite Latin Americans, and, in the 1920s, southern and eastern Europeans did not belong to the republic and could never be accepted as full-fledged members.

4. Civic vs. Racial Nationalism
In his book, American Crucible:Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, historian Gary Gerstle argues “that the pursuit of these two contradictory ideals--the civic and the racial--has decisively shaped the history of the American nation in the twentieth century.”
Moreover, Gerstle argues that at times of war, racial nationalism often takes precedence over civic nationalism.
Show clip of “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights.”

6. "We've been brainwashed. Everything good is supposed to be white
"We've been brainwashed. Everything good is supposed to be white... Tarzan, the king of the jungle in black Africa, he's white... Angel food cake is the white cake, but the devils food cake is chocolate."

7. “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

8. Rights and Liberation Background
Shared experiences of oppression and discrimination but different historical circumstances
Chicano Movement
Native American
Asian
Gender Specific

9. Black Power Salute 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico
Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos – showing the Black Power salute at the medals ceremony during the National Anthem
All three wore OPHR badges (Olympic Project for Human Rights)
IOC Reaction:
He ordered Smith and Carlos to be suspended from the U.S. team and banned from the Olympic village
When the U.S. Olympic team refused, the IOC threatened to ban the entire U.S. Olympic team
Their medals were stripped and they were expelled from the games.

10. Tommie Smith’s Reaction
“If I win, I am an 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.”

11. Chicano Movement Defining Chicano Brown Berets Use of ethnic symbols
Of or pertaining to Mexican Americans
Brown Berets
High School blowouts
Brown
Berets
Chicano Park

13. The Brown Berets
Modeled after the Black Panther Party, the Brown Berets focused on community organizing against police brutality and were in favor of educational equality. While they are considered the "militant wing" of the Chicano Movement because of their firm stance against racism and their "militant" dress, they were not engaged in physical combat except in clashes with police.

14. On March 1, 1968, the Brown Berets planned and participated in the East L.A. walkouts or "blowouts", the largest and lengthiest in the history of California, in which thousands of students left their classrooms to join the protest for quality education.

15. Red and Yellow Power Termination Policy Red Power
Urbanization and Politics
American Indian Movement
Wounded Knee
Yellow Power
Yellow? Oriental? Asian American?

16. Feminism and Liberation in Postwar America

17. Second Wave of Feminism
Origins
Liberating June Cleaver
documented discrimination
Civil Rights and New Left experiences
recognizing oppression

18. Women’s Rights v. Women’s Lib
end legal and educational discrimination
National Organization for Women
Women’s Lib
origins in New Left and Civil. Rights.
Consciousness raising
challenged social/cultural oppression
Abortion
Barbie Dolls
Sexist Commercials

19. Feminism in the 70s Rights and Lib movements blur Roe v. Wade (1973)
Equal Rights Amendment
Weaknesses and Failures
homemakers
middle class bias
failure to integrate other races