1. The 1960s

2. The Election of 1960 Richard Nixon (R) vs. John F. Kennedy (D)
Television debates

3. Election of 1960
Why did Kennedy win?

4. The Kennedy White House
Camelot

5. New Frontier More funding for education Aid the civil rights movement
Committed to the Space Race
Environmental cleanup
Clean Air Act (1963)
Foreign aid
Peace Corps – volunteers serving internationally
Alliance for Progress – focused on Latin American nations
Tariff reductions

6. Assassination November 22, 1963

7. Warren Commission
Conspiracy ?
Magic Bullet

8. Lyndon B. Johnson War on Poverty 40 million under poverty line
“hand up, not a hand out”

9. Aiding Poverty Equal Opportunity Act
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Head Start – free kindergarten to families that qualify
Community Action
VISTA

10. Election of 1964 Beginning of LBJ’s Great Society
88th Congress
Democrats dominated
Voting Rights Act – 1965
Literacy tests illegal for voter registration
Medical Care Act – 1965
Medicare – aid to elderly
Medicaid – aid to disabled or lower income families
Less immigration restriction

11. Culture of the 1960s US Population – 177,830,000 Avg. salary - $4743
Minimum wage - $1.00/hr
Continuation of the 1950s
Conformity – “keeping up with the Joneses”
Consumerism
Television

12. Mass Culture
Music
Motown
British invasion
Classic rock

13. counterculture

14. Changing Culture
Why?
Boredom from the 1950s
Rock-n-roll
Mass culture – US taking on one identity
Rebellion against conformity
Baby boomers becoming teenagers (Rebel Without a Cause)
Beatniks (“Beats”) – anti-conformists, more of an intellectual culture of questioning the status quo

15. Allen Ginsberg Leader of the Beat Generation
Stood against materialism, war, sexism
Capitalism and Conformity = destruction of self
Ginsberg referred to his parents, in a 1985 interview, as "old-fashioned delicatessen philosophers". His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a high school teacher. Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg, was affected by a psychological illness that was never properly diagnosed. She was also an active member of the Communist Party and took Ginsberg and his brother Eugene to party meetings. Ginsberg later said that his mother "made up bedtime stories that all went something like: 'The good king rode forth from his castle, saw the suffering workers and healed them.'" Of his father Ginsberg said "My father would go around the house either reciting Emily Dickinson and Longfellow under his breath or attacking T. S. Eliot for ruining poetry with his 'obscurantism.' I grew suspicious of both sides."

16. Timothy Leary
Harvard Psilocybin Project

17. Youth International Party (Yippies)
Abbie Hoffman
against the “establishment”, anti conformity and Vietnam
“Steal this Book”
Pigasus 1968

18. Hippies

19. The Flower Children
Known for
Style
Music
Homelessness
Drug culture

20. Haight-Ashbury
Hippy neighborhood in San Francisco, CA

21. Woodstock