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Politics of Protest

Explore the growth of youth movements in the 1960s and their impact on various social and political issues, including the Vietnam War, civil rights, women's rights, and environmental protection.

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Politics of Protest

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  1. Politics of Protest

  2. 1. 3 reasons for the growth of youth movement • Reject conformity • Concern of the future • Increased college enrollment 2. Students for Democratic Society protest Vietnam, fight poverty, campus regulation, racisim

  3. Counterculture • Idealistic or disillusioned young, white middle class, hippies • It had grown hollow, materal & cold “Tune in, turn out, drop out” • Utopian ideals, ideal society closer to nature, full of love, empathy, tolerance, and cooperation • San Francisco – Height Ashbury, Chicago – Old Town, NY – Greenwich Village

  4. 5. Listening and playing rock and roll, outrageous clotthers, using drugs, communes 6. Charles Manson murders, death of Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrick 7. Pop art, consumer oriebntated mass art, longer hair, beards, mustahce, colorful & causual fashions 8. Rock & Roll, Beatles,Woodstock 9. Causual approach to sex & social behavior, rise of homosexual rights, conservative backlash

  5. Women’s movement • Men & women should be equal politically socially & economically • More women working, increase exposure of unfair status. Learn lessons from Civil Rights movement • Encourage women to speak openly about unhappiness, set ground work for women’s right movement

  6. 4. National Org. for Women; more education & equality in the workplace 5a. Shed light on women’s issues in the workplace 5b. In most cases outlawed paying men more then women 5c. Outlawed job discrimination by private employers 5d. Suppose to oversee law, but still held certain ideas of what women’s place was 5e. Prohibited federal funded schools from discrimination of women in sports & adminstration 5f. Gave females control of reproductive rights

  7. 6. Antifeminism, end laws protecting homemakers, lead to same sex marriage, end husbands responsibility to provide; law rejected 7. More women go to college & have carriers, Employers become more flexible w/ working women, still gap in pay

  8. New Civil Rights • Companies & institutions actively recruit AA to help improve economic & social status • Reverse discrimination, qualified whites don’t get jobs • Transports kids outside of neighborhoods to achieve racial balance but whites go to private schools

  9. Saving the Earth • Alerted Americans to the dangers of pesticides, encouraged people to lobby congress, helped bring about the Clean Air Act and banning of DDT, helped Americans realize that everyday behavior effects environment 2. Encouraged people to learn about environmental issues and to take action to improve environment 3. Established regulations for and enforcement of the nation’s environmental protection policies

  10. 4. Forced industries to meet tougher pollution standards, led to reduction in pollution levels 5.One of the most powerful displays of community action, brought awareness to dumping of hazardous material 6. Alerted people to the dangers of nuclear energy, persuaded the federal government to issue stricter safety standards and inspection procedures for nuclear power plants

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