1. Draw the Outline—11 petals

2. Countercultures and Movements of the Sixties
‘‘Flower Power’’ and Our Favorite Causes

3. Music of a Movement: ‘‘The Times, They are a Changin’’’

5. Personal issues became political issues and political issues became personal issues…

6. 1.Black Nationalism/Black Power
The Black Power Movement advocated personal, political and economic control of African American lives
MLK—SCLC--Nobel Prize in 1965—assassinated in 1968
Malcolm X—Nation of Islam (assassinated in 1965)
Stokely Carmichael--SNCC
Huey Newton—Black Panthers

8. 2.Women’s Liberation—Equal Rights Movement
Feminism—theory of social, political, and economic equality of men and women
Education: College Degrees for women
1950—25% —43%
Economics—Women made significantly less money than men
Marriage—average age in 1960—19

9. A Chronology of Events
1826—public high schools for girls opened in Boston and NY
1848—first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY
1850—Oregon allow married women to own land in their own names
1879—Wyoming Territory gave women the vote
1920—19th amendment
1963—Equal Pay Act prohibits wage discrimination based on gender
1964—Civil Rights Act bans gender discrimination (see 14th amendment)
1965—Supreme Court strikes down laws banning contraceptives
1971—Supreme Court bans sex discrimination in hiring
1972—Equal Rights Amendment proposed—fails in 1982
1972—Title IX ends gender discrimination in school sports
1973—Roe v. Wade makes abortion legal
1981—President Reagan appoints first woman to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor
1993—female pilots are allowed to fly in combat
1994—Violence Against Women Act is passed
2008—Hillary Rodham Clinton gets 18 million votes in bid for Democratic nomination for President
2012—Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
2013—Females allowed in military combat

10. Landmarks in Women’s Rights
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique—1963
Friedan was first President of National Organization of Women (NOW)—1966

11. ‘‘The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered….Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chuffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question— ‘Is this all?’’’ Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

13. ‘‘ Ms. ’’
MS Magazine was started by Gloria Steinem

14. Equal Pay Act--1963
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title IX
Affirmative Action
EEOC—Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974
The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade--1973
Equal Rights Amendment proposed in 1972—died in 1982 after passage by less than 38 states (Texas passed it)

15. Hitting the ‘‘Glass Ceiling’’

16. 3.Native Americans AIM—American Indian Movement—founded in 1968
Efforts to reclaim Native culture that was hindered by years of boarding school educations
Occupation of Alcatraz for 19 months
March on Washington—1972
Occupation of Wounded Knee—71 day stand-off

19. In 1973, Brando turned down the
Oscar, citing that
Hollywood needed to improve the image of the Native American in films.

20. Tribal Life
Oil development
Casinos
Federal and tribal law

21. 4.Latinos La Raza Unida—political party established in 1970 (in Tx)
Cesar Chavez
and the
United Farm Workers
led national boycotts

22. Other concerns… Bilingual education fair pay Political clout
Immigration

25. 5.Free Speech Movement and Students for a Democratic Society

26. Effects on college life
Student government
Co-ed dorms
Relevant courses

27. 6.The Anti-War Movement College Demonstrations The Draft Draft dodgers
Summer of Love—1967
Disenfranchisement
Woodstock--1969
Kent State--1970

34. 7.Environmentalists

35. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Pesticides and Food laws
‘‘Don’t mess with Texas’’
Clean Air Act
Earth Day—April 22
Anti-Emissions Legislation
Alternative Energy

36. 8. Americans With Disabilties Act passed in 1973, amended 1990
Access to all public buildings required
Amenities in restrooms, public buildings, classrooms
Special programs in education, health care fields etc.

37. 9.Education Changes Head Start Public Television
Federal grants for arts and sciences
Teaching the individual
Texas— “no pass no play”
State testing requirements
“No child left behind” G.W.Bush

38. 10.Gay Rights The law 1960s 1970s 1980s and AIDS 90s 2000s
Recent Supreme Court decision
As of 2012, four states have legalized gay marriage (Texas is not one of them)

39. 11.Consumer Advocacy Unsafe at Any Speed—book by Nader
Ralph Nader—spokesman for consumer rights and third party presidential candidate in 90s and 2000
Federal Consumer Advocate—recent appointment

40. Everybody has a cause… Animal rights Pro-Life/Pro-Choice
Clean water sources
Anti-nuclear weapons/energy