1. Social Revolutions of the 1960s

2. Revolution Defined 1. An overthrow and thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. 2. A radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence.

3. Background – 1950’s World Events –WWII (1941-1945) –Dawn of Nuclear Age –Rise of Communism –Cold War Korean War Vietnam War

4. Background – 1950’s Domestic Events –Economic Boom –Scientific Advances –Consumerism –Baby Boom –Rigid Social Structures white suburban middle class segregated south traditional gender roles

5. Slavery Triangular Trade The Slave South Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

6. Segregation 1877 – 1964 Ku Klux Klan

7. Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Protesters Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. Radicals

8. Investigating the Civil Rights Movement People –Rosa Parks –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. –Malcolm X –President Lyndon B. Johnson Events –Plessy v. Ferguson –Brown v. Board of Education –Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School –Montgomery Bus Boycott –Greensboro, NC Sit-ins –Freedom Riders –March on Washington –Freedom Summer –Civil Rights Act of 1964 –Voting Rights Act of 1965 –Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

9. Early Women’s Rights Protesting for the Right to Vote Susan B. Anthony

10. Women’s Rights of the 1960’s No More “Good Housewife” Gloria Steinem (top) and Betty Freidan

11. Investigating the Women’s Rights Movement* People –Betty Freidan –Gloria Steinem –Shirley Chisholm Events –19 th Amendment –“The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Freidan –National Organization for Women (NOW) –Commission on the Status of Women –Civil Rights Act of 1964 –Equal Pay Act –Equal Rights Act (ERA) –Roe v. Wade –Title IX *AKA: The Feminist Movement, Women’s Liberation Movement

12. Youth Movement Abbie Hoffman Students for a Democratic Society Hippies? Anti-War Protest

13. Counter-Culture Psychedelic Rock Allen Ginsberg Woodstock - 1969

14. Investigating The Youth Movement* People –John Lennon –Bob Dylan –Abbie Hoffman –Allen Ginsberg –William S. Burroughs –Timothy Leary –Andy Warhol Events –Beat Generation (1950’s) –The Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) –Vietnam War (1959-1975) –Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (The Draft) –“Summer of Love” – Haight/Ashbury, San Francisco –1968 Democratic National Convention –Woodstock Concert –Kent State Massacre *AKA: The Anti-War Movement, The Protest Movement, The Counter-Culture Movement, The Hippie Movement