Student Protest Movement

The New Left

● A growing youth movement of the 60's

● Followers demanded sweeping changes in American society

Students for a Democratic Society

● Founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber

● Group said that corporations and the government has taken over America

Free Speech Movement

● Leader Mario Savio● Free speech on

campus● California @ Berkeley● Same goals as the

SDS

The Movement Grows

● College Teach-ins● March on Washington

in 1965● A call for Civil

Disobedience ● 400 chapters of the

SDS by 1969

Why oppose Vietnam?

● Vietnam was a Civil War and USA had no business being there

● South Vietnam was no better than Communism

● Draining American strength and resources

● Morally Unjust

Columbia University 1968

● Massive student protest.

● Students took over many buildings on campus

● 900 people arrested.● 3 university officials

taken hostage

The Weathermen

● 1969 violent off-shoot movement of the SDS

● 1st action Chicago shopping district

● Bombed the Capitol Building, broke Timothy Leary out of jail, evaded the FBI for most of the 70's

Chicago Democratic ConventionAnti-war demonstrators protested throughout the convention, clashing with police all around the convention center, the Chicago International Amphitheater (in the streets, as well in Lincoln Park and Grant Park). Mayor Richard J. Daley took a particularly hard line against the protesters, refusing permits for rallies and marches, and calling for whatever use of force necessary to subdue the crowds. The Chicago Police were being taunted by the rioting "counterculture" with at first paperballs and marshmallows. They then began to throw glasses of urine and fecal matter. When U.S. Sen.rt Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) delivered a shluck nominating George McGovern for President, he infuriated Daley by saying, "with George McGovern as President of the United States, we wouldn't have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago."

Days of Rage

The Days of Rage riots occurred in Chicago over a four day period beginning October 8, 1969 after 287 members of the militant group, the Weathermen, converged on the city to confront the police in the streets after protesting the trial of the group that was commonly referred to as " the Chicago Seven."

Kent State Massacre

The Kent State shootings, also known as May 4 or the Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The altercation killed four students and wounded nine others.

Significance of The New Left

● The antiwar protest lead to the abolishment of the military draft.

● The War Powers Act of 1973 that curbed the President’s power

The antiwar movement also contributed to the American publics’ suspicious view of the government.

Counterculture Movement1965-1971

• Counterculture- a movement made up of mostly white, middle-class college youths who tried to establish a new culture based on love and peace.

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Throughout the mid- and late sixties tens of thousands of idealistic youth left school, work, or home to create what they hope would be a perfect community of love, peace,

and harmony

Timothy Leary

● “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out” were the words of counterculture leader Timothy Leary. The counterculture grew from the 1950’s Beat Movement.

Monterey Music FestivalThe idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival came out of the mid-60's belief that what had been pop music was now a much more serious art form, and could take its place alongside jazz Artists agreed to perform for free, and the Summer of Love was born. The first major music festival was held on June 16, 17 and 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. 

1967 Summer of Love

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The Flower Power movement reached its short but intensive climax in the "Summer of Love" in 1967. Many different people came together to build a new society. They wanted a new, individual style. The postwar generation tried to build its own culture in the 50's. They refused traditional standards and values. Their most important colors were black, red and white - white for the drugs, black for their clothes and the coffee and red for the wine. Their values were radical individualism, an uncontrolled way of life expressed in parties,drugs and free love.

Pictures from Summer of Love

Haight-Ashbury Streets

This "revolution" took place mainly in Haight Ashbury, a small neighborhood in San Francisco. The Haight Ashbury was little more than a few square blocks which stretched from the edge of Golden Gate Park for a half-mile down Haight Street .One could find cafes, head shops , poster shops, hip boutiques, the Oracle office and the Straight Theatre

and the Pig Commune

Commune style living became Popular among Hippies afterThe Summer of Love. This styleOf living gave Hippies a chanceTo connect with nature and religion.Wavy Gravy was a leader of one of the Pig Commune in New Mexico. Wavy Gravy also was the MC at the Woodstock festival.

Woodstock Music FestivalThe legendary Woodstock Festival took place over three days in August 1970- August 15, 16, 17. Among the performers, there were Janis Joplin, Santana, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Sha Na Na and Jimi Hendrix, or as he called his band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Hendrix was scheduled to close the show on Sunday night, but due to delays, Hendrix and band took the stage on Monday morning, to a crowd of only about thirty-thousand: far less than the estimated peak crowd of four hundred- thousand

Music of the Counterculture

• Music feature Hall of Fame groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. As well as rising artists Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

                                                   

Psychedelic Drugs

Psychedelic Drugs suchAs LSD became very Popular with the Movement because they Were not banned in California until 1966.

The Legacy of the Counterculture

As the counterculture ended if left America with more liberating views in the areas of dress, appearance, lifestyle, and social behavior. While some Americans found it liberating, some said it was the start of moral decay in the country

How were the Two Movements Connected?

● Music● Drugs● Rebellion against culture (counterculture)