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Civil Rights DBQ Go

Civil Rights DBQ Go. You MUST submit a thesis before class !. Social Unrest of the 1960s-1970s. Warm Up. Study the Gallup Poll Data from 1950 – 1975 List 3 general trends that you see ? What made Civil Rights such a pressing issue in 1965, but not significant before that time ?

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Civil Rights DBQ Go

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  1. Civil Rights DBQ Go • You MUST submit a thesis before class!

  2. Social Unrest of the 1960s-1970s

  3. Warm Up Study the Gallup Poll Data from 1950 – 1975 • List 3 general trends that you see? • What made Civil Rights such a pressing issue in 1965, but not significant before that time? • How does the impact of the Cold War & US foreign policy change over time?

  4. US Population by age 1950 -1970 • What demographic shift do you see between 1950 – 1970? • What factors do you think caused these changes? • What potential social conflicts might arise?

  5. Counter culture /ˈkoun(t)ərˌkəlCHər/ • A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. • What were the attitudes & norms of the 1950s? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYX9j3Tqzw

  6. Antithesis to 50s norms & values • Beatniks (Beat Generation) • Literary movement that questioned materialism, WASP values, and depicted an explicit picture of the human condition • Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac • Civil Rights Movement • Rock music –free association of white & black creative culture; sexual innuendo

  7. Causation • Post-WWII Prosperity • Baby boom population 38% of US population by 1965; 30% get some college education • Exposure to new ideas & issues beyond suburbia • Liberal professors offer an opposing view to the social norms of suburban life • Cold War anxieties (Cuban Missile Crisis; MAD; Domino Theory) • Inequalities in American society defy childhood belief in ‘equality & democracy for all’

  8. Issues • Youth-based Civil Rights movement will morph into Anti-Vietnam protests after 1965 • Prosperity based government initiatives –Great Society will compete with Military build-up in Vietnam • 1968 –assassinations of MLK, Bobby Kennedy; Presidential election crisis for Democratic Party • Loss of faith in government leadership -Gulf of Tonkin crisis, My Lai Massacre, perceived lack of funding for Great Society initiatives, secret bombings in Laos & Cambodia, Watergate

  9. What did John F. Kennedy mean? How were his words interpreted by baby boomers? • “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier –the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and paths, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes & threats. The new frontier I speak is not a set of promises –it is a set of challenges”

  10. The ‘New Left’ • Students for a Democratic Society –Port Huron Statement, 1962 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJeAF3E2yl0 • Weathermen –violent offshoot of SDS -Formed in 1967 • Free Speech Movement begins at UC Berkeley, 1964 • Student Riots & occupation of campus buildings, Columbia Univ. 1968; UC Berkley, 1969 • Counterculture • Hippies were related to New Left, but more focused on flouting social conventions & embracing sensual pleasure • Haight-Asbury neighborhood of San Francisco • Woodstock music festival, July 1969 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Y0ekr-3So

  11. Vietnam at home • Protest as a result of demographic changes –by 1970 over half of the US population was under 30 • 8 million college students; 1 million in 1950 • Overwhelmingly white & affluent • embraced minority causes • supportive of 3rd World Marxist leadership • Small, highly vocal minority • Opposition to the military draft • Anti-deferment • Draft card burning • Draft evaders, pardoned in 1977

  12. The Great Society • LBJ fulfilled and extended JFK’s New Frontier programs • War on Poverty • Elementary & Secondary Schools Act, 1965 • Aid to individual children, not school • College loans • Medicare(retired), 1965 &Medicaid (poor & disabled), 1966 • Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) -‘Community Action’ committees • Spent $3 billion in 1st two years with little success, too expensive to fund • Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Cabinet position & agency, 1966 • Civil Rights Civil rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Immigration Act of 1965 –removed national origin quotas from the 1920’s

  13. Public Awareness • Environmentalism • Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ (1962) • Gov’t sponsored pesticide usage killing wildlife, without public consent • Environmental Protection Agency founded by Richard Nixon in 1970 • Consumer safety & rights • Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ (1965) • Indictment of US automakers for not making vehicles safer, when they possessed the know-how to stop injuries & fatalities • Seat belts & redesigned steering column, bumpers & dashboards became federally mandated features • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGnofDIR6vA @ 7:00

  14. Gay & Lesbian Rights • Stonewall Inn Raid and riots • NYC, Greenwich Village (1969) • National Gay Task Force (1975) • Pushed for Nondiscrimination ordinances • Repeal of same-sex relation statutes • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFxpQG7nBQ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDZWQKNrCA

  15. Women’s Liberation Movement • Origins • Betty Friedan (1963) The Feminine Mystique & founder of NOW –National Organization of Women (1966) • Purpose • End sexism & male chauvinism • Equal Rights Amendment –never ratified; intro 1923 by Alice Paul, passed by Congress, 1972 • Gloria Steinem – equality in work place (end to pink collar & wage disparity & ‘double day’ mentality) • abortion rights, wrote After Black Power, Women’s Liberation • Opposition: • Phyllis Schlafly –Stop ERA advocate; afraid that women would lose ‘gender-specific privileges’ • Princess Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtyOC6ayKoU

  16. Activity (on Google Classroom): DBQ • Develop a working thesis • SFI List • Contextualization • Analyze the documents • Revise Thesis (if needed) Synthesis • Draw a parallel to another historical time period

  17. CLOSE • Using your Gallup Poll data about “America’s Problems”… • Based on the opinions of the American public, by the 1990’s how do we know that the Great Society did not fulfill all of its promises?

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