The Counter Culture

1. The Cultural Upheaval of the 1960’s“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? ”Joseph Stalin

2. The Counter Culture • New cultural divide began in the 60’s as more educated American’s became secular and less educated became more religious

3. The 3 P’s of the 60’s • Youthful population bulge • Protest against racism & Vietnam War • Permanence of prosperity

4. 1960’s • Sexual Revolution • Gay Rights • Anti War (hawks vs. doves) • Anti Racism

5. Equal Rights for Latinos • The Farm Worker Movement * United Farm Workers Organizing Committee • Grape boycott in California • “Brown Power” & Brown Berets • 1968 walk out in Los Angeles

6. Equal Rights for Native Americans • Poorest health in America • Eisenhower’s “termination policy” • 1968 President Johnson established the National Council on Indian Opportunity • American Indian Movement * “Trail of Broken Treaties” * Sioux incident

8. Women Fight for Equality • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan • Feminism- belief that women should have economic, political and social equality. • National Organization for Women (NOW) * childcare in the workplace * gender discrinimation * Roe v. Wade

11. Age of Aquarius • Conventional wisdom & ideas were under attack by the counterculture movement • Grew from white middle class youth • “tune in, tune on, drop out” • San Francisco area was known as the “hippie capital”

12. The New Counterculture • Kent State Massacre 1970 • National Guardsmen opened fire on student protestors in Ohio, killing four

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14. Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticizeWhat you can't understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road isRapidly agin'.Please get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin'.The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin' • The Times They Are A Changin’ • Come gather 'round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou'll be drenched to the bone.If your time to youIs worth saving'Then you better start swimmin'Or you'll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin'.Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'.For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outsideAnd it is ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'.

20. Decline of the Counterculture • By the 1970’s the movement had ended • Main flower children fell victim to drugs and mental breakdowns. • Young people in the 70’s became more concerned with finding a job • “revolutionary terrorism” • Caused the political spectrum to change from liberal to conservative

22. One Pager Do you believe the counter culture of the sixties was constructive or destructive to the American way of life? Give Examples from videos, songs etc.