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Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements

Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements. Student Movement and the New Left. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Led by Tom Hayden Port Huron Statement University decisions made by participatory democracy Berkeley, CA – 1964 Free Speech Movement

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Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements

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  1. Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements

  2. Student Movement and the New Left • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • Led by Tom Hayden • Port Huron Statement • University decisions made by participatory democracy • Berkeley, CA – 1964 • Free Speech Movement • End university restrictions on student political activities

  3. Student Movement and the New Left • More student demonstrations • Student restrictions • Demonstrations against Vietnam • Campuses closed down • Kent State/Jackson State • Weather Underground • Radical wing • Some vandalism resulted in injuries

  4. Counterculture • Joined with political movements • Expressed in music, drug use, communal living • “Hippies”

  5. Counterculture • Music • Folk: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan • Rock: Rolling Stones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, The Beatles • Hallucinogens • Tim Leary • LSD • Woodstock • 1969 festival of music in NY • High-point of counterculture

  6. Counterculture • Retrospect • Democracy • Free Speech • End to poverty • End to racial discrimination • End to war

  7. Sexual Revolution • Change in attitude toward sexual expression • Alfred Kinsey – studies indicated premarital sex, infidelity, homosexuality more common than suspected • Medicine – STD treatment, birth control • Advertisements • Movies

  8. Women’s Movement • Increased employment, civil rights movement, sexual revolution • Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique (1963) • Encouragement to seek fulfillment in careers • National Organization for Women (NOW) • Activism for equal treatment • Equal Pay Act of 1963, Civil Rights Act of 1964 contain gender discrimination protection

  9. Women’s Movement • Campaign for the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) • 1972 – Constitutional Amendment, originally written by Alice Paul in 1923: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.” • Needed 38 states to ratify, got 35 • Glass ceiling remained

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