Transcript Counterculture of the 60s

The Era of Social Change
Latino’s
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Mexican American
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Largest group
Braceros: temporary
workers
Lives in S.W. US and
California
Other Latino’s
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Puerto Ricans
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Cuban
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Lived in NY City
Refugees of Cuban
Revolution
Lived in Miami
Central America
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Escape the civil wars
and chronic poverty
Latino’s
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Life in America
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Faced discrimination
and prejudice
Poverty and
unemployment very
high
The Farm Worker Movement
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Led by Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee
(UFWOC)
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Union for farm workers
Wanted higher wages
and benefits
Cultural pride
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“Brown Power”
movement
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Young Latino's refer to
themselves as
“Chico’s”
Brown Berets formed
by David Sanchez
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Community action
group
Native Americans
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Popular stereotypes
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Lacked ability to
control and govern
themselves
Looked at as 1 group
Poorest Americans
Highest unemployment
rate
High infant mortality
rate
Low life expectancy
American Indian Movement
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Militant group
Against Police brutality
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Wounded Knee
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Seized the town
Ended in shootout and
gov’t promise to
reexamine policies
Native American Victories
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1972 Indian Education
Act
1975 Indian Selfdetermination and
education Assistance
Act
Regained land from
broken treaties
Women Fight for Equality
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Feminism
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Belief that women
should have economic,
political, and social
equality with men
Workplace
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1960 – 40% of women
worked
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Clerks, servants, retail
sales, nurse
Women and Activism
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Within civil rights
movement women
assigned lesser roles
Betty Friedan
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The Feminine Mystique
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Captured the discontent
women were feeling
National Organization for Women
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NOW
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Pushed for child-care
facilities
Enforcement of Civil
Rights Act of 1964
Legal and Social Gains
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1972 congress ban on discrimination
Tax break for working parents
Roe v. Wade
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Women’s right to have an abortion during the
first 3 month’s
Equal Rights Amendment
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ERA – would
guarantee equality
Pro-family movement
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Feared drafting of
women
End of husband
responsibilities
The legacy
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ERA defeated
Expanded career opportunities
Changed attitudes towards family
Counterculture
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A movement made up
of mostly of white,
middle-class college
youths who turned
there backs to
traditional America.
“Tune In, Turn on, Drop Out”
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Wanted to create a
community of peace,
love and harmony
Movement marked by
music, outrageous
clothing, sexual
freedom and drugs
San Francisco becomes
the center
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Haight-Ashbury
In the 60s, thousands of
teenagers became part
of the “counterculture.”
These “hippies” rebelled
against the traditional
American culture.
Hippies believed in
a world free of war
and hate and full of
peace and love
The hippie look
was long hair,
tie-dyed shirts,
and use of drugs
like marijuana,
LSD and heroin
Famous music groups of the
Hippie Movement
Music played
a large part
of the Hippie
Movement
The Beatles
Jefferson Airplane
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison and the Doors
Summer of Love - 1967
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Young people from all over the country
went to San Francisco to listen to music,
take drugs, and “be”
Long haired men & women – called hippies
They brought these ideas back to their
homes
The sensibilities of the youth did not jive
with those of their parents
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Birth control, premarital sex
Woodstock
Music festival held in upstate
New York in 1969 that exemplified
the counterculture of the 1960s
Thirty-two of the best-known musicians
of the day performed in front of nearly
half a million concert-goers
Woodstock is
regarded as one
of the greatest
moments in pop
music history
1968: Turbulent Year
Martin
Tet Offensive
showed U.S.
was not
winning the
Vietnam War
Robert F.
Kennedy
shot in
June of
1968
Riots occurred
at the
Democratic
National
Convention in
August of 1968
Luther
King shot
in April of
1968
Decline of the movement
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Violence and
disillusionment
Drug addiction
become dependent on
society
Art
The Conservative Response
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Believed that
counterculture
abandoned rational
thought in favor of
self-expression
Wanted to set the
nation on more
conservative course.