Social Revolutions Social Revolutions of the 1960sof the 1960s

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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.

Background – 1950’s

• World Events– WWII (1941-1945)– Dawn of Nuclear Age– Rise of Communism– Cold War

• Korean War• Vietnam War

Background – 1950’s

• Domestic Events– Economic Boom– Scientific Advances– Consumerism– Baby Boom– Rigid Social Structures

• white suburban middle class• segregated south • traditional gender roles

Slavery

Triangular TradeThe Slave South

Emancipation

Proclamation - 1863

Segregation

Segregation

1877 – 1964

Ku Klux Klan

Civil Rights

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Protesters

Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr.

Radicals

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.

Early Women’s Rights

Protesting for the Right to Vote

Susan B. Anthony

Women’s Rights of the 1960’s

No More “Good Housewife”

Gloria Steinem (top) and Betty Freidan

Investigating the Women’s Rights Movement*

• People– Betty Freidan– Gloria Steinem– Shirley Chisholm

• Events– 19th 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

Youth Movement

Abbie Hoffman

Students for a Democratic Society

Hippies?Anti-War Protest

Counter-Culture

Psychedelic Rock

Allen Ginsberg

Woodstock - 1969

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