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civil rights. James meredith. U. of Mississippi. JACKIE ROBINSON. Brooklyn Dodgers Discrimination. VIVIAN JONES. U. of Alabama. GREENSBORO FOUR. N.C. A&T. SNCC. segregation Young. MALCOM X. Aggressive Segregation, then integrate ? Black power Others. BLACK POWER.

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  1. civil rights

  2. James meredith • U. of Mississippi

  3. JACKIE ROBINSON • Brooklyn Dodgers • Discrimination

  4. VIVIAN JONES • U. of Alabama

  5. GREENSBORO FOUR • N.C. A&T

  6. SNCC • segregation • Young

  7. MALCOM X • Aggressive • Segregation, then integrate • ? • Black power • Others

  8. BLACK POWER • Self-determination, neighborhood help • Black Panthers • Oakland

  9. FREEDOM RIDES • 1961 • Violence

  10. FREEDOM SUMMER • Mississippi, 1964 • Suffrage

  11. Police dogs attacked a seventeen-year-old civil rights demonstrator for defying an antiparade ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963. He was part of the “children’s crusade” organized by SCLC in its campaign to fill the city jails with protesters. More than 900 Birmingham schoolchildren went to jail that day. SOURCE:Photo by Bill Hudson.AP/Wide World Photos.

  12. MAP 28.2 Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Voter registration among African Americans in the South increased significantly between 1960 and 1971.

  13. Beyond black and white • Mexicans • Puerto Ricans • Japanese

  14. WOMEN’S RIGHTS • Influence? • ++ workers • Problems? • discrimination, exploitation

  15. Social patriarchy • Exploitation, war, racism

  16. FEMINISM • Radical • White middle-class • Ethnic

  17. CHICANO REBELLION • “Chicano” – young Mexican-Americans, 1960’s • Ethnic nationalism • Equality

  18. 9/16/69 – National boycott • “walkout” • Young • Brown Berets

  19. ENVIRONMENT • Nationwide • Govt. • Species • Air, water • April 22, 1970 • First Earth Day

  20. GAY LIBERATION • Violence • “Gay Power” • 1973 – APA, homosexuality normal sexual orientation

  21. MAP 29.1 Urban Uprisings, 1965–1968 After World War II urban uprisings precipitated by racial conflict increased in African American communities. In Watts in 1965 and in Detroit and Newark in 1967, rioters struck out at symbols of white control of their communities, such as white-owned businesses and residential properties.

  22. Watts • 1965 • Black-White relations

  23. FIGURE 29.4 Public Opinion on the War in Vietnam By 1969 Americans were sharply divided in their assessments of the progress of the war and peace negotiations. The American Institute of Public Opinion, founded in 1935 by George Gallup, charted a growing dissatisfaction with the war in Vietnam. SOURCE:The Gallup Poll:Public Opinion,1935 –74 (New York:Random House,1974),p.2189.

  24. MAP 29.2 The Southeast Asian War The Indo-Chinese subcontinent, home to long-standing regional conflict, became the center of a prolonged war with the United States.

  25. Longest • Communism • North vs. South • Vietnamization • April 30, 1975

  26. The massive bombing and ground combat created huge numbers of civilian casualties in Vietnam. The majority killed were women and children. SOURCE:BlackStar/Stockphoto WQXQZ4TN.

  27. African American troops in Vietnam, 1970. Serving on the front lines in disproportionate numbers, many black soldiers echoed the growing racial militancy in the United States and increasingly chose to spend their off-duty time apart from white soldiers. SOURCE:Mark Jury, The Vietnam Photo Book .

  28. On May 8, 1970 New York construction workers surged into Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, violently disrupting an antiwar rally and attacking the protesters with lead pipes and crowbars. Known as the “hard hat riots,” the well-publicized event was followed later in the month by a march, 100,000 strong, of hard-hat workers unfurling American flags and chanting “All the way U.S.A.” SOURCE:Associated Press,AP photo 6297753.

  29. Protests • College students • Violence

  30. BOAT PEOPLE • Vietnamese refugees • Communism • Diffusion: U.S. and other places • Orange County

  31. REBELLION - counterculture • 50’s – Beat generation • 60’s – Hippies • Men • Women • Communal

  32. Sexual experimentation – pill • Drugs: LSD • Marijuana

  33. MORAL CRISIS? • Sexual revolution • Hippies, youngsters • Liberal free speech policies • Penthouse, Hustler • Porn movies • S.F. Valley

  34. MUSIC • Beatles • Bob Dylan • Protest, freedom • Motown • New Black R&B • Detroit

  35. WOODSTOCK • Music, drugs, youth

  36. LATIN MUSIC • Fania All-Stars • “Salsa” • N.Y. • Caribbean

  37. WATERGATE • 1972 election: Nixon • CREEP • Wiretap Democratic headquarters: Watergate • Caught by security • 1974, resigns

  38. Richard Nixon bid a final farewell to his White House staff as he left Washington DC on August 9, 1974. The first president to resign from office, Nixon had become so entangled in the Watergate scandal that his impeachment appeared certain. He was succeeded by Vice-President Gerald Ford. After taking the oath of office later that day, President Ford remarked that the wounds of Watergate were “more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars.”SOURCE:Bettmann/Corbis BE 023919.

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