A Time of Change

1. A Time of Change

2. movements • A time for demanding Civil Rights • Black • Chicano • Women’s Movement • American Indian Movement • Other groups: • Japanese • Disabled Americans • Gay Movement • Gray Movement

3. Begin 1960 With JFK • JFK defeats Nixon • Deals with • Civil rights issues • Bay of Pigs • Cuban Missile Crisis • Suggests formation of NASA to land a man on the moon • Creates Peace Corps • Promotes relationships with Latin America • JFK Assassinated on November 22 1963

4. 1963-1968 LBJ • LBJ picks up where Kennedy and his “new frontier” left off with the creation of • The great society • Ending racial injustice • Declaring war on poverty • Improving access to healthcare • Supporting lifelong learning and culture • Opening doors for immigrants • Preserving the environment • Protecting consumers

5. Emergence of a counterculture • Counterculture: • A group with ideas and behaviors very different from those of the mainstream culture • Big contributor: • Bob Dylan • Sang about racial injustice, nuclear war, and other major issues that engaged people living in a time of social change • Times they are a changin

6. Baby Boomers launch a Cultural Revolution • Postwar baby boom created the largest generation of children in American History • By the early 1960s the oldest baby boomers were nearing their twenties • A few of these boomers felt guilty about the growing up with advantages denied to many Americans • They believed American society was flawed (materialism, racism, and inequality) • Also believed it could change

7. Form a New Left • Responding to the suffering of the poor a small group of student activists formed a movement called the New Left • Rejected the communism of the ‘old left’ • Inspired by the civil rights movement—goal of allowing all people to have an active part in government

8. Students for a Democratic Society • The strongest voice of the New Left • During their first year (1962) membership grew to over 8,000 students • Formation of the Free Speech Movement • Developed in response to a university rule banning groups like SDS from using a plaza on campus to spread their ideas • Thousands of students joined the movement shutting down the campus for weeks—eventually the university lifted the ban

9. New Left: Tinker v Des Moines • Tinker v Des Moines

10. Hippies • They developed a counterculture seeking freedom of expression • Shunned convention • Preferred jeans and long hair • Gave up shaving or wearing make-up

11. Uniting the movements • No organization could unite all of the movements • However beliefs did: • Distrust of the establishment • Their term for the people and institutions who controlled society • Love was more important than money

12. Culture Clash • Countercultures that embraces ideas like “be-ins” that tended to promote the illicit use of drugs seemed to prove mainstream societies worst fears • Society was in a moral decline • Changing view of love and marriage • Counterculture embraces an openness about sexual behavior • Sparks the Sexual revolution

13. Culture Clash • Hippies embrace a freer society • Reject mainstream life in favor of communes • Embrace changing views of recreational drug use • Rock-n-Roll gives a voice to the counterculture • Many adults worries that this music promoted increased drug use • Woodstock • Counterculture at its height • 400,400 people gathered at a 3 day music festival

14. Impact of the Counterculture Movement • By the end of the 1960s countercultural ideas and images appeared in mainstream magazines and movies and on television • Experimentation with new forms of expression spread to the visual arts—new pop art • Pop art focused on everyday life, commenting on consumer culture by elevating plain objects into art • explanation of the counterculture