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Section 1The student Movement and the counterculture
Port Huron Statement
• 1962 declaration• Views defined by Students for the
Democratic Society• Youths were concerned about the
injustices they saw in political and social systems
Tom Hayden• Wrote the Port Huron Statementeditor of University of Michigan
student paper• The declaration call for an end to
apathy and urged citizens to stop accepting a country run by corporations and big government
Free speech movement
• Led by Mario Savio and other Berkeley students
• The issue that spark this movement was the university’s decision in the fall of 1964 to restrict students’ rights to distribute literature and to recruit volunteers for political causes on campus
• 1964 Led to sit in and savio’s famous speech with arrest of more than 700 protestors
• Following that the supreme court validated first student amendment rights to freedom of speech.
Counterculture• Throughout decade thousands of
mostly white middle and upper class youth created their our lifestyle
• They promoted rock music, drug use, free independent living
• Or know as hippies
communes• Group living arrangements in which
members shared everything and worked together
• Hippies establish this in small rural communities while others lived together in parks or crowed apartments
Haight Ashbury District
• One of the most popular hippie destination
• Located in San Francisco• Mid 1960 thousands of hippies came
to live here•
Haight Ashbury District
Religious movement
• In rejection of materialism many member of the counterculture embraced spirituality
• Beliefs from eastern religion to new forms of Christianity
Jim Hendrix• A guitarist from Seattle• Use of electrical amplified
instruments also drastic changed the sound and feel of the new music
The Beatles• One of most famous rock groups took
the country by a storm in 1964• Rock music was absorbed into the
mainstream where it brought material success worth billions of dollars to performance, promoters and record companies
Section 2Feminist
Movement
Feminism• The belief that men and women should be
equal politically, economically, and socially, had been a weak and often embattled force since the adoptation of the 19th amendment guarantee women's voting rights
• The women’s movement split into 2 groups
The league of women voter
• Tend to promote laws to protect women and children such as limiting the hours they could work/
The National woman’s party NWP
• Opposed protective legislation for women.• They believed it reinforced workplace
discrimination.• 1923 persuaded congress to introduce First
Equal Rights Amendment aimed to forbid federal, state, and local laws from discriminating based on gender
Equal Pay act• 1963 in support of labors woman won act
which outlaw paying men more than women for the same job\
• 2 forces helped bring women’s movement to life
• One Ordinary women and • President Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt
Equal Employment Opportunity commission eeoc
• The civil Rights Act created a new federal agency charged with administering the new law
• Was officially operating in july 1965
Betty Friedan
• Traveled around the country interviewing the women who had graduated with her from Smiths college in 1942
• Wrote The feminine mystiques• She found that most women reported having
everything they could want in life, they still felt unfulfilled
• Best seller
Betty Friedan
National Organization for women
• To take action needed to bring women into the mainstream American society, now in full equal partnership with men
• Friedan and other set out to form this group
Title 9• Prohibited federally funded schools from
discriminating against girls and young women in nearly all aspects of its operation from admin to athletics
Roe vs wade• Appeal laws against abortion• Until1973 the right to regulate abortion was
reserved to states• In late 1960 some states adopted more
liberating abortion laws• 1973 supreme court decision – ruled that state
governments could not regulate abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy
Phyllis schlafly• She organized the stop Era campaign.• Active in politics after earning a masters
degree from Harvard in 1945 and law degree• She testified before 30 state legislatures
against the ERA which failed in 1982
SECTION 3 new approaches
to civil rights
Affirmative action• Enforced through executive order and federal
policies• It called for companies and institutions doing
business with the federal government to actively recruit african americans employees with the hope that this would lead to improved social and economic status
• Later this expanded to minority groups and women
Allan Baker• One of the more notable challenge to
affirmative action came in 1974 after officials at the university of ca medical school at DAVIS turned down a white applicant for the second time
• When he learned that slots were set aside for minorities he sued the school
• He said by admitting others with lower scores than him was discriminating against his race
busing• To ensure desegregated schools, local
government transported children's to schools outside their neighborhood
• White families wanted to take their children out of the schools for private schools
• Swann v charlotte Mecklenburg board of edu
Brown vs board of education Topeka
• By early 1970 African Americans pushed for harder education improvements
• The supreme court ordered an end to segregating public school.
• In 1960 still many schools did not comply with the court and continue to separate the students
Jesse jackson• In a struggle for equal rights african american
found a new political leader• 1971 he founded People United to save
humanity or PUSH a group aimed at registered voters developing african american businesses and broadening educational opportunities.
Congressional Black Caucus• 1971 african american of congress
reorganized an existing organization in order t more clearly represent the concerns of African Americans
Million man march
• Lious Farrakhan of the nation of Islam helped organize
• Gathering of African American men in Washington dc to promote self reliance and community responsibility
Cesar Chavez• Hispanic campaign was the effort to win rights
for farm workers• Most mexican amercian farm laborers earned
little pay, few benefits and no job security• He helped organized a group in 1960 that
fought for farm workers• He enlisted college students civil rights groups
to boycott ca largest agricultural products.• 17 million stop buying
LA RAZA unida• Hispanics americans became politically active
during the 1960 and 1970.• In 1969 Jose Angel Gutierrez organized a new
political party in texas• Means united people• The group mobilized mexican american voters
to push for job training programs and greater access to financial institutions
bilingualism• One issue both Hispanic students and political
leaders promoted• The practice of teaching immigrant students in
their own language while they also learned english
• Congress supported and passed bilingual education act in 1968
American Indian movement• Native amercians formed more militant
groups more a combative style.• This group was organized 1968 to fight high
unemployment, inadequate housing, and racial discrimination
• The group also focused on treaty rights and worked to regain tribal lands.
Section 4Saving the
Earth
Rachel Carson• Effort to ban DDT was only one aspect of a
larger environment movement that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s
• Marine biologist• Wrote book Silent Spring talks about using
pesticides DDT and killing all birds, fishes, insects, and the creatures that ingest them
smog• In northwest timber companies were cutting
down acres of forestland. • Heavy dark smoke and chemical fumes
smothered the major cities
Environment protection agency• In 1970 president nixon signed the national
environment policy act• The EPA took on jobs of setting and enforcing pollution
standards, promoting research, and coordinating antipollution activities with state and local governments
• They also monitor the impact of other federal agencies on the environment
• Endangered species 1972• The clean air act became law 1970• The Clean water act 197
Fossil fuels• During the 1970 increasing number of citizens
expressed concern over the growth of nuclear power
• Supports of nuclear energy hailed it as a cleaner and less expensive alternative to __________ which is coal, oil, and natural gas which are limited
• Opponents warned of the risks particularly the devastating consequences of an accidental radiation release into the air
3 mile island• The debate moved to the nation’s forefront in
1979. in the early hours of March 28 one of the reactors at the ___________________nuclear facility outside Harrisburg, pennsylvania overheated after its cooling system failed.
• Low levels of radiation escaped• Since the accident 60 nuclear power plant have
been shut down and none has been built since 1973
Ralf nader• A young lawyer from Connecticut. • In the early 1960, he noted what he
considered an alarmingly high number of automobiles fatalities
• He presented in 1965 his book unsafe at any speed
• He charged car manufactures with putting style ,cost, and speed ahead of safety
Ralf nader
National traffic and motor vehicle safety act
• In 1966 Naders effort helped spur congress to pass this act
• The act set mandatory safety standards and established a procedure for notifying car owners about defects
• For the first time cars industry were subject to safety regulations
• Requirements called for seat belts, door locks, safer fuel tanks, and other improvements that helped save lives
Love canal• Most powerful display of community activism
occurred in the housing development near Niagara falls, ny
• In the 1970 residents of _________ noticed a rising number of health problems, nerve damage, blood disease, cancer, miscarriage, birth defects.
• They soon learned that their community sat atop of a decades old toxic waste dump. The hazardous contents had leaked into the ground.