Transcript Protest culture - presentation

 starter activity
A popular music game of the 1960s was called ‘Juke Box Jury’. Listen to these
civil rights protest songs and decide if they would have been a ‘Hit’ or ‘Miss’ in
terms of winning support for their campaign
Was 1968 the year that
went too far… or not far
 Aims
enough?
To assess the impact of the protest
culture
Paris student riots, 1968
Hippies and ‘Flower Power’
Youth culture
Woodstock
Anti-war demonstrations
Anti-war demonstrations at an American campus
The end of an era of optimism
 Your task
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Read p.252-255 of, ‘Modern America’ by Joanne
de Pennington and take notes on the different
aspects of the Protest Culture:
Student activism
Counter-culture
Anti-war movement
Feminism
Assassinations
 Plenary
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Why do you think students protested in the
1950s but not in the 1960s?
Did the protest culture help or hinder the civil
rights movement?