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The Turbulent 1960s: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Counterculture Movements

Explore the political crises of the 1960s, from the Port Huron Statement to the Free Speech Movement, Vietnam War protests, and social upheaval. Dive into key events like the Tet Offensive, the Summer of Love, and the tragic Kent State shootings.

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The Turbulent 1960s: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Counterculture Movements

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  1. The War Comes Home: The Political Crises of the 1960s

  2. The New Left: The Port Huron Statement, 1962 • “the goal of man and society should be human independence” • “in a time of supposed prosperity, moral complacency and political manipulation, a new left cannot rely on aching stomachs to be the engine of social reform”

  3. Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-65

  4. TV and Vietnam

  5. Norman Morrison

  6. The Summer of Love 1967

  7. Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967 "A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.

  8. Tet offensive, January 1968

  9. The “Fall” of Siagon, 30 April, 1975

  10. Chicago: The Democratic Convention, 1968

  11. The Weathermen, the Yippies, the RYM, and the “Days of Rage”, Chicago, 1969

  12. Trang Bang, Vietnam, 8 June 1972

  13. My Lai Massacre, March 1968

  14. Kent State University, May 4, 1970

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