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New Social Movements and Vietnam. Black Power Feminism Free Speech Vietnam War Antiwar movement Counterculture. Chronology. 1962 Port Huron Statement Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1963 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on Washington
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New Social Movements and Vietnam • Black Power • Feminism • Free Speech • Vietnam War • Antiwar movement • Counterculture
Chronology 1962 Port Huron Statement Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1963 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on Washington Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Johnson President 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom Summer Harlem riots 1965 Malcolm X assasinated Voting Rights Act Immigration Reform Act Watts riot Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed 1966 National Organization for Women organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant protest 1969 Stonewall riot “Indians of All Nations” occupy Alcatraz island Fred Hampton murdered by FBI
New York Times photograph made after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination
Women in Labor Force, 1940-1987 1940 1950 1960 1970 1987 Millions 13.8 17.8 22.5 31.2 53.0 Percentage Employed Single 48 46 43 51 65 Married 17 23 32 40 56 With children 6 NA 12 19 30 57 ” 6-17 NA 28 39 49 71
Cold War - Vietnam War Chronology 1961 Bay of Pigs 1962 Port Huron Statement Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on Washington Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Johnson President 1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom Summer Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965 Malcolm X assasinated 1966 National Organization for Women organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968 Tet offensive Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant protest 1969 Stonewall riot “Indians of All Nations” occupy Alcatraz island 1970 The Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State 1972 Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment (not ratified by states) 1973 Paris peace agreement ends war in Vietnam for America
Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong officer. My Lai massacre