U.S. Cultural History

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U.S. Cultural History

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• Culture of the 60s

Baby Boom Counterculture Radicals Revolution Civil
Rights Activism
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• You did not have to lock your doors at night. You
  really didn't. Parents did not worry about their
  kids playing outside after sunset. But there were
  curfews reasonable ones. And no kid was out
  after midnight on a school night.
• There were no metal detectors at the airports...
  or the schools. There were no warning labels on
  our records, no ratings necessary on the movies.
  And TV shows were fit for the whole family.
• When you fell down at the store, you apologized
  for being careless, and went home... embarrassed.
  If you got hurt, you went to your doctor, and you
  paid the bill yourself. Sometimes, the doctor
  would even come to your house.
• When you really messed up at school, you got sent
  to the principal's office. And then you paid the
  price... once then, and again when you got home.
  Your parent's word was the final word.
• We knew what "shame" was back then.
• We knew what a family was back then we knew what
  "responsibility" was back then and we knew the
  definition of the word "is.
• Most families had one or two television sets, one
  or two telephones, and one or two cars. Few kids
  got a car when they turned 16.

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• Most homes, even those in the south, did not have
  air conditioning neither did most cars. In the
  summer, people opened their windows at home and
  used large fans they sat and entertained on
  screened-in porches they drove with the windows
  open. We used less than half the amount of energy
  (per person) than we do today.
• About 40-60 of adults smoked. And they smoked
  everywhere... in restaurants, airplanes, movie
  theatres, offices, elevators, buses...
  everywhere. TV newscasters smoked on the air,
  Johnny Carson and his guests smoked on
  television. Cigarettes were advertised
  everywhere... TV, radio, magazines, ball parks,
  airports.... everywhere. Until the mid-60s, the
  manufacturers of cigarettes even suggested that
  their products might be good for your health
• Our air, rivers, and open spaces were far more
  polluted. Some people threw trash out the windows
  of their cars or dropped it on the ground. But
  there were no plastic bags. Taking out the trash
  was an ugly chore.
• There were virtually no drive-by shootings or
  guns in schools. You knew your neighbors and
  respected them. The language on television was
  much more tame.

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• There was not a fast food restaurant on every
  street corner. The menu at McDonald's consisted
  about about six items. There was no fast food
  breakfast. There were 30 brands of cereal at the
  grocery store, not 300. There were no microwave
  ovens. Hamburgers, fries and hot dogs were king.
  As a foreign dish, a lot of people ate ravioli -
  Chef Boyardee Ravioli. Milk was good for you.
  Coke and Pepsi were a treat. There were no diet
  sodas. Soft drinks came in 6-ounce, glass bottles
  that you had to return to the store. A
  quarter-pound burger was huge - and rare. There
  were no super-size fries or big-gulp soft drinks.
  
• A favorite candy bar was the Clark Bar. But Baby
  Ruth, Milky Way, Snickers, Three Musketeers and
  PayDay were also popular. So was the standard
  Hershey Bar - plain or with nuts. "Sometimes you
  feel like a nut" - Peter Paul Almond Joy and
  Peter Paul Mounds candy bars. As with most foods,
  the candy bars were much smaller but they cost a
  nickel back then. At the movies we had popcorn,
  Cokes and Milk Duds. We chewed a lot of gum back
  then - bubble gum, too big wads of bubble gum.
• Long before there was Tang, there were Fizzies.
  They were tablets about an inch in diameter. You
  dropped one in a glass of water, and it fizzed
  (or bubbled) for about a minute as it dissolved
  in the water. Fizzies came in several flavors.
  They were cool! Kool-Aid was cool, too.

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• Nation elected its youngest president, John
  Fitzgerald Kennedy-
• Full of charm, intelligence, and energy, he
  inspired the nation.
• first televised presidential debates in 1960
• President Kennedy was killed. Americans across
  the country watched the assassination, and the
  later murder of the accused assassin, on
  television. In addition to causing many to take a
  closer, more critical look at their culture and
  values the event solidified television's central
  role in American society. The immediacy of the
  exposure brought the country together in a state
  of national mourning.

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Kennedys New Frontier

• Chapter 31 Sect. 4
• Civil Rights- rights of all Americans to vote and
  have a fair trial
• 1962- desegregation of federal funded public
  housing projects
• Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.
• Robert Kennedy as Attorney General- help southern
  blacks.
• Blacks appointed as judges and ambassadors
• Black Revolts- 1961-1963
• 1961- Freedom Riders- desegregate Interstate
  busses.
• 1962- James Meredith and the University of
  Mississippi.
• Television- struggle, violence, sit-ins,
  demonstrations.
• 1963- Sit-ins desegregate lunch counters, hotels
  and theaters.
• 1963- Martin Luther King and Birmingham,
  Alabama.- Bull Connors, dogs, fire hoses,
  electric cattle prods, bombings.
• 1963- Kennedy call for new Civil Rights laws.
• 1963- Medgar Evers- NAACP in Mississippi
  assassinated.
• March on Washington- August 8, 1963- I have a
  Dream and We shall overcome.

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Prices in the 60s
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Prices in the 60s
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Prices in the 60s
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LBJs Great Society

• Chapter 32 Sect. 2
• Great Society- abundance and liberty for all
  end to poverty and racial injustice every child
  can find knowledge renew contact with nature a
  challenge constantly renewed
• War on Poverty forty programs that were intended
  to eliminate poverty by improving living
  conditions and enabling people to lift themselves
  out of the cycle of poverty.
• Education sixty separate bills that provided for
  new and better-equipped classrooms, minority
  scholarships, and low-interest student loans.
  Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Medicare Medicaid guaranteed health care to
  every American over sixty-five.
• The Environment introduced measures to reclaim
  our heritage of clean air and water. Water
  Quality Act 1965
• National Endowment for the Arts and the
  Humanities created with the philosophy that
  artists, performers, and writers were a priceless
  part of our heritage and deserve support.
• Job Corps provided enabling skills for young men
  and women.
• Head Start program for four- and five-year-old
  children from disadvantaged families that gave
  them a chance to start school on an even basis
  with other youngsters.
• Appalachian Regional Development Act
• Housing and Urban Development Act 1965
• Immigration Act of 1965
• Tax surcharge
• Consumer Protection and Environment- Rachel
  Carson and Ralph Nader.

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Television

• 1960, Americans owned 85 million television sets
• CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite- news of
  race riots in New York City and Los Angeles, and
  of the beginnings of troop escalation in Vietnam.
• Among entertainment programs, westerns, detective
  and police shows, family sitcoms, medical shows,
  game shows, and variety shows were the most
  prevalent and popular genres. The Flintstones ,
  Rocky and his Friends, Alvin the Chipmunks ,
  the Jetsons , and Mr..... Magoo. The Andy
  Griffith Show , Beverly Hillbillies,Bewitched,
  The Addams Family, My Favorite Martian , I Dream
  of Jeannie, Star Trek, the Outer Limits , and the
  Twilight Zone.
• There were only three television networks. There
  were no VCRs and, of course, no Internet.
  Accordingly, there were far fewer programs on
  television. But as a result, most of us watched
  the same programs. That tended to bring us
  together, whereas today's targeted programming
  tends to separate us.
• Television also brought the Beatles into American
  homes. On February 9, 1964 the group appeared on
  the "Ed Sullivan Show," beginning the British
  Invasion with a rash of "Beatlemania.

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Books

• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
• Other books focussed on bringing about change in
  the present. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
  (1962), Michael Harrington's The Other America
  (1962), and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
  (1963) brought about revolutions in the way
  people thought about social issues like
  environmental pollution, poverty and gender
  stereotypes.
• The anti-war movement of the later sixties was
  anticipated by Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961).
  John Le Carré debuted his gritty, realistic view
  of espionage in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
  (1963). His novels were in direct contrast to the
  glamorous James Bond, created by Ian Fleming,
  whose novels President Kennedy professed to
  enjoy.- Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and
  Goldfinger

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Movies

• On the Beach (1960), West Side Story (1962), and
  To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). In 1963, Sidney
  Poitier won the Academy Award for his role in
  Lilies of the Field.
• Butterfield 8 (1960), The Apartment (1960), Come
  September (1961), Lolita (1962), Irma La Douce
  (1963), and Gypsy (1963). Epics like Ben Hur
  (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and
  classic movies like Psycho (1960) and Breakfast
  at Tiffany's (1961) were released, as well as the
  first of the James Bond movies, Dr. No (1962).
  Disney scored several commercial triumphs,
  including four hits in 1961 The Parent Trap, The
  Absent-Minded Professor, Swiss Family Robinson,
  and 101 Dalmatians.
• The Pawnbroker (1965) and Easy Rider (1969).
  Violence and horror were depicted more
  graphically than ever before, in such movies as
  Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Wild Angels
  (1966). Heroes became passé, and anti-heroes
  became protagonists. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Westerns was replaced by more sardonic
  Italian-made Westerns, called "Spaghetti
  Westerns," such as The Good, the Bad, and the
  Ugly (1968). Beach movies like Beach Party (1963)
  were replaced by more rebellious biker movies
  like The Wild Angels (1966). Sex and
  relationships were explored in movies like The
  Graduate (1968) and Bob and Carol and Ted and
  Alice (1969). Issues of race and ethnicity
  appeared in movies like Guess Who's Coming to
  Dinner (1968) and Goodbye, Columbus (1969).
• Some filmmakers brooded on the unpleasant side of
  life, such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
  (1966) and Midnight Cowboy (1969). Others
  pondered the future of humankind in movies like
  2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) and Planet of the
  Apes (1968). Barbarella (1968) and The Producers
  (1968).

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Sports
Super Bowl 1
Clemente
Maris
Rudolph

• In sports, the New York Yankees won the World
  Series two years in a row, in 1961 and 1962.
• The Summer Olympic Games of 1960 took place in
  Rome, Italy, and the Winter Games took place in
  Squaw Valley, California.
• Roger Maris hit homer number 61, setting a record
  that wasn't broken until the September of 1998 by
  Mark McGwire.
• Wilma Rudolph, a black American woman, received
  three Olympic gold medals in fast running. As a
  child, she was very ill with pneumonia and
  scarlet fever. She barely lived, and doctors said
  she probably would never be able to walk again.
  But she never gave up hope, and was not only able
  to walk again, but able to outrun everyone else
  in the Olympics to be rewarded with three gold
  medals.
• In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first black
  American to play in major league baseball, was
  placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame for his
  talent.
• The first Super Bowl was played in 1967, with the
  Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs the
  Packers won.

Mantle and Dimaggio
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Science and Technology

• The big-three auto manufacturers (Ford, GM and
  Chrysler) owned the car market
• In science and technology-
• pacemakers and lasers
• 1st birth control pill, Enovid, in 1960.
• computer silicon chips were patented.
• tranquilizer valium was developed
• quasars, the most distant objects in the
  universe, were identified in 1963.
• Research in ecology grew in response to reports
  of the environmental impact of pollution.
• NASA scientists were hard at work trying to beat
  the Soviets in putting a man on the moon.
• Fear of nuclear war came to a head with the Cuban
  Missile Crisis in 1962.
• IBM introduced the System/360 family of
  compatible computers
• improved strain of rice, which ushered in the
  Green Revolution in developing countries.
• Surgeon General reported a link between smoking
  and lung cancer in 1964
• soft contact lenses were developed in 1965.
• Supertankers were introduced to transport oil.
• The most famous technological event, however, was
  Apollo 11's moon landing on July 20, 1969, which
  was televised live to American homes.
• Recordings were improved by the development of a
  Dolby device to filter out background noise.
• In 1968, American cars were required to have
  anti-pollution devices to control emissions
  because of the newly understood dangers of
  automobile hydrocarbon emissions.

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Fads

• Twist and surfing, the Watusi replaced the twist.
  The Mashed Potato, the Swim, , the Monkey and
  the Jerk followed the Twist
• Limbo and Pop Art à la Andy Warhol. Op art, with
  its thumb-nosing attitude toward established
  artistic norms of subject and style, became
  popular.
• Barbie dolls and Troll dolls were the last word
  in toy chic.
• For women, the miniskirt and Jackie Kennedy made
  pillbox hats and wraparound sunglasses important
  accessories. The "face of 1966" was Twiggy, the
  skinny Cockney model who popularized a unisex,
  nouveaux flapper look for women. Many women wore
  pierced ears, white boots and white stockings,
  with the more racy donning microminiskirts
• Discotheques became popular.
• Men wore longer hair, women wore pants
• The hippie lifestyle was embraced by growing
  numbers in the Haight-Ashbury district of San
  Francisco.
• "afro" hairdos and traditional West African garb.
  
• Beach movies grew in popularity, "dry surfing,"
  or skateboarding, became a frequent pastime of
  young people.
• 1968-Big Macs and quartz watches were first
  marketed.
• Cashmere turtlenecks, especially when worn under
  Nehru jackets, became chic. The mod look of
  Dutch-boy caps, flamboyant wide ties, silk
  shirts, and bell-bottomed trousers was the style
  for men.. Teens wore granny glasses, while the
  children sported cartoon character watches.

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Popular Music

• Chubby Checker's The Twist" (1962), Frankie
  Valli and the Four Season's "Walk Like a Man"
  (196?), and the Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A."
  (1963) were among the top songs. Girl groups
  began releasing hits, such as the Shirelles'
  "Will you still love me tomorrow" (196?).
• Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin followed the lead
  of Ray Charles in creating the genre of Soul
  music
• Bob Dylan's and folk singers like Joan Baez and
  Peter, Paul, and Mary.
• Competing with the Beatles for the top song slots
  were the elegant Supremes.
• In 1967, British and American musicians entered a
  new psychedelic sonic landscape with albums like
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The
  Beatles), Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix),
  Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane), The
  Doors (Jim Morrison and The Doors), many of these
  musicians and their fans used mind-altering drugs
  to produce or enhance these effects. Whereas
  marijuana had been the most common drug among
  folk, RB, and rock musicians, LSD became popular
  among those of the acid rock, heavy metal, and
  psychedelic crowd.

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Civil Rights

• The black movement began peacefully, with Martin
  Luther King and Stokely Carmichael leading
  sit-ins and peaceful protests, joined by whites
  and Jews.
• Malcolm X preached black superiority
• Black Panthers were advocating black separatism,
  violence and anti-Semitism.
• The term "blacks" became socially acceptable,
  replacing "Negroes."
• The number of Hispanic Americans tripled during
  the decade and became recognized as an oppressed
  minority. Cesar Chavez organized Hispanics in the
  United Farm Workers Association.
• American Indians, facing unemployment rates of
  50 and a life expectancy only two-thirds that of
  whites, began to assert themselves in the courts
  and in violent protests.
• The Presidential Commission of the Status of
  Women (1963) presented disturbing facts about
  women's place in our society. Betty Friedan,
  Pauli Murray and Gloria Steinem, (National
  Organization of Women) questioned the unequal
  treatment of women, gave birth to Women's Lib, .
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to
  include gender. The birth control pill became
  widely available and abortion for cause was
  legalized in Colorado in 1967. In 1967, both
  abortion and artificial insemination became legal
  in some states..

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Black Revolt and Youth Rebellion

• Summer Freedom Project- CORE -1964 to get blacks
  registered to vote in Mississippi. Three civil
  rights workers killed, homes and churches bombed
  and burned.
• Civil Rights Act of 1964- integration of public
  places.
• 1964- Martin Luther King Jr. gets Nobel Peace
  Prize.
• Selma Freedom March- 1964 march from Selma to
  Montgomery Alabama for freedom from the
  oppression. Gov. Wallace tried to stop it, but
  government troops protected the third march
  attempt and it was successful.
• Malcolm X- Nation of Islam and assassinated.
• Stokely Carmichael- Black Power
• Riots- 1967- in major cities.
• Youth Rebellion- Baby Boom and prosperity.
  Hippies and the counterculture. New Left- SNCC,
  SDS, Weathermen, Campus protest, and Anti-Vietnam.

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Racism

• Integration- Even after 1954 schools still
  segregated- private schools, movement of whites
  to all white neighborhoods large all Black
  neighborhoods New schools and district lines
  Court orders integration
• Forced Busing- is the concept of achieving racial
  or economic integration in schools by
  transportation of schoolchildren by bus to
  schools outside their neighborhoods. Court
  ordered to provide a racial balance. Violence.
  Created new problem- long bus rides, parent and
  teacher communication suffered.
• Affirmative Action- Affirmative Action levels the
  playing field so people of color and all women
  have the chance to compete in education and in
  business. Despite the enormous gains made by the
  civil rights and women's rights movements, women
  and people of color still face unfair obstacles
  in business and education.
• Reverse Discrimination- Bakke Case- 1978 .
  Discrimination against members of a dominant or
  majority group, especially when resulting from
  policies established to correct discrimination
  against members of a minority or disadvantaged
  group.

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Woodstock 1969

• No where was counterculture so celebrated as at
  the mass music festivals of the late sixties,
  culminating in the Woodstock festival in 1969. A
  ticket for one day cost 6-8 a 3-day ticket
  18-24.
• Three days of Peace and Music." August 15, 16,
  and 17, 1969.
• 450,000 kids
• 100 miles from New York City
• In a matter of minutes, the festival became a
  free event
• People parked their cars as far as 20 miles away.
  Once you arrived, you had to stay there was
  nowhere to go. There was no place to sleep, no
  place to bathe, no place to eat... no place to
  nothin'.

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Woodstock 1969

• Woodstock hoped to draw a crowd of 150,000 for a
  celebration of a communal spirit and to hear some
  of the most popular rock acts of the day.
• The festival started on Friday, August 15, 1969,
  and the crowds quickly grew to number over
  450,000, causing massive traffic jams, logistical
  nightmares, shortages of food and medical
  supplies, and potential problems of crowd
  control.
• On Saturday, the gates were opened to accommodate
  the many thousands who arrived without tickets.
  The music was almost nonstop, the rains came,
  drug use was widespread, sanitary conditions were
  primitive, bad acid trips were a constant
  problem, yet somehow it all worked out.
• Richie Havens Country Joe McDonald Jimi
  Hendrix John Sebastian Crosby, Stills, Nash
  Young Melanie Arlo Guthrie CCR, Janis Joplin
  Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.
• A few months later, a similar gathering was held
  at a racetrack in Altamont, California, and
  turned ugly when members of the Hell's Angels
  attacked and killed a man near the stage where
  the Rolling Stones were performing.

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Rebellion and the Counterculture

• Problems- escalating war in Vietnam, the
  incomplete success of the Great Society and the
  civil rights movement.
• The pursuit of sex, drugs, and rock and roll
  became the preoccupation- Tune in, turn on and
  drop out. Communes arose.
• The counter-culture lifestyle stressedfreedom,p
  eace,love tolerance,getting back to
  nature,the power of the group. You're either on
  the bus or off the bus. Do your own thing,
  Tell it like it is, and experimentation with
  drugs and more extensive sexual activity.
  Better living through chemistry.
• San Francisco was a major hub. Young people
  across the country emulated aspects of the hippie
  lifestyle.
• The hippie lifestyle appeared on television, in
  the movies, and on Broadway.
• Americans became fascinated with everything from
  East Asian clothing to Hindu mysticism. Among the
  most eager consumers of mysticism were the
  residents of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco.
• The hippie counterculture came with a uniform
  long hair, tie-dyed shirts, jeans, protest
  buttons, long flowered skirts. Just as the hippie
  look was considerably more relaxed than
  prevailing standards, hippie sexual mores were
  generally looser than those of the general
  populace. Nevertheless, their actions made an
  impact on the larger society, changing the role
  of sex in American society. A hippie is someone
  who dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and
  smells like Cheetah."--California governor
  Ronald Reagan

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Rebellion and the Counterculture

• The Supreme Court decided in 1962 that prayer in
  the public schools was unconstitutional.
• As the 1960's progressed, many young people
  turned from mainstream Protestant religions to
  mystic eastern religions such as Transcendental
  Meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) or Zen
  Buddhism.
• Respect for authority declined among the youth,
  and crime rates soared to nine times the rate of
  the 1950's.
• Marijuana use soared. Respected figures such as
  Timothy Leary encouraged the use of LSD as a
  mind-opening drug.
• A number dropped out into communal living. One
  dictionary definition of a classic commune is 'a
  relatively small, often rural, community whose
  members share common interests, work and income
  and often own property collectively'. But the
  commune idea can take many forms

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Rebellion and the College Campus- The New Left

• The New Left was made up largely of college
  students.
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which
  was formed in Michigan in 1962. It attacked
  social injustice and the values of the so-called
  Affluent Society.
• The New Left grew in 1964 with the onset of the
  free-speech movement at the University of
  California at Berkeley, which was a protest
  against restrictions on student involvement in
  political demonstrations on campus.
• It also won followers by denouncing American
  involvement in Vietnam and deploring the failure
  of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs to
  eradicate poverty.
• Best known of the demonstrations took place at
  Columbia University in 1968, Harvard University
  in 1969, and Kent State University in 1970, when
  the National Guard killed four students after
  being called out to stop antiwar protests.
• The New Left was also active in the
  counterculture of the 1960s.

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Rebellion and the Democratic Convention of 1968

• Before the convention- King assassinated, RFK
  assassinated, and countless anti-war
  demonstrations.
• For the Democratic party, Chicago '68 doomed the
  candidacy of Hubert Humphrey and set off shock
  waves of reform.
• For the Left (antiwar), Chicago '68 hastened the
  demise of SDS and intensified the revolutionary
  fervor that would spawn street violence and
  bombings.
• Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman- leaders of the
  Youth International Party (YIPPIES) came to
  Chicago
• For the media, Chicago '68 created a deep
  suspicion of the state and its minions.
• For Chicago, Chicago '68 weakened support for the
  last of the big-city bosses and fanned the flames
  of political reform.
• In the end 8 police charged and 8 civilians
  charged (Chicago 8- later the Chicago 7

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Rebellion and the Anti-War Movement

• Quaker and Unitarian beliefs had long existed in
  the United States.
• The escalating nuclear arms race of the late
  1950s- goal was to reduce.
• Unwilling to settle for fewer nuclear weapons,
  students desired a wholesale restructuring of
  American society
• At first the SDS and New Left focused on domestic
  reforms and supported Johnson and fought for
  Civil Rights and student Rights.
• 1965-Bombing of North Vietnam -Anti-War
  demonstration. Teach-ins on campuses. March on
  Washington.
• 1967- Alternative service suggestion and draft
  evaders.
• Tet Offensive escalated anti war sentiment
• 1969-1973 most powerful- second march on
  Washington and My Lai Massacre
• 1970- Bombing of Cambodia, Kent State and the
  Pentagon Papers.

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Rebellion and the Weathermen

• The Weathermen, also known as the Weather
  Underground Organization,
• "revolutionary organization of communist men and
  women" splintered from the Students for a
  Democratic Society (SDS).
• Weathermen advocated the overthrow of the
  government of the United States and the system of
  capitalism toward that end, they carried out a
  campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots.
• In October 1969, the Weathermen organized their
  first event, called the "Days of Rage," in
  Chicago
• n 1970, the group issued a Declaration of War
  against the United States government, changing
  its name to the "weather underground
  organization", adopting fake identities, and
  pursuing covert activities only. Broke Timothy
  Leary out of Jail.

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Vietnam

• Selective Service- The Draft
• lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held
  on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service
  National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This
  event determined the order of call for induction
  during calendar year 1970, that is, for
  registrants born between January 1, 1944, and
  December 31, 1950. Reinstitution of the lottery
  was a change from the "draft the oldest man
  first" method, which had been the determining
  method for deciding order of call.
• There were 366 blue plastic capsules containing
  birth dates placed in a large glass container and
  drawn by hand to assign order-of-call numbers to
  all men within the 18-26 age range specified in
  Selective Service law

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RESULTS FROM LOTTERY FOR MEN FACING THE DRAFT IN
1972

• The lottery drawing held August 5, 1971,
  determined the order in which men born in 1952
  were called to report for induction into the
  military.
• How to read this chart This chart shows all the
  birth dates in a given year and the lottery
  numbers assigned to those dates. Read this chart
  like a multiplication table. At the top of the
  chart are the months of the year. On the far left
  are the dates of the month. The numbers in the
  center represent lottery numbers. For example To
  find the lottery number assigned to July 15, look
  down from "July" till it matches up with the
  number "15" on the left side of the table. The
  corresponding number in the middle is "088." This
  means that all men born on July 15, 1952, were
  assigned the lottery number 88.
• The highest lottery number called for this group
  was 95 all men assigned that lottery number or
  any lower number, and who were classified 1-A or
  1-A-O (available for military service), were
  called to report for possible induction.

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