Transcript Student Movement & the Counterculture

By 1970 58.4% of U.S. Pop. Under 34
 Affluence of 1950s = increase in college
enrollment
 Cold War raging
 Activism due to Vietnam and draft
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“Beat” movement of
1950s – criticism of
American values and
culture
 Students for a
Democratic Society
(SDS)
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› “New left” – Student
radicalism
› Port Huron Statement –
Stop accepting a country run
by big corporations and big
government – occupied
Columbia University
Tom Hayden
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Led by Mario Savio & started at Berkeley (Go Bears)
Former student & “CORE” activist was not
allowed to pass out information on campus
and arrested by campus police.
Faceless administration employing vague rules
& punishments
Freedom of speech on college campuses
Supreme Court ruled in favor of the students
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Mostly white upper & middle–class
– Promoted
• flamboyant dress
• Rock music
• Drug use
• Free & independent living
– Utopian Ideal
• Full of love, empathy , tolerance & cooperation
– Communes
• Group living arrangements in which members
shared everything
• Haight-Ashbury District
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Decline
– Communes turned dangerous
– Lifestyle was not practical, too many drugs
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Fashion
› Long hair
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Art/Pop Art
› Andy Warhol
 Up to the observer to give the work meaning
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Music & Dance
› R&R would topple the establishment
 Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix
 Woodstock
Students also
protested on
campus against
Vietnam.
 May 4th, National
Guard fired on
students – 4
dead.
 Nation horrified.
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Group project
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We Shall Overcome – Joan Baez 1969 version
Times They are A’changin – Bob Dylan, 1964
Eve of Destruction – Barry McGuire, 1965
Abraham, Martin and John – Dion, 1968
Fortunate Son - Credence Clearwater Revival 1969
Where have all the Flowers Gone – Pete Seeger,
1961
War – Edwin Starr, 1970
I am Women – Helen Reddy, 1971
Say it Loud – James Brown, 1968
Universal Soldier – Donovan, 1965
For What it’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield, 1967
We Got to Get out of this Places – The Animals, 1965