Warm Up 3/21

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Warm Up 3/21

• What do you think of when you think of the 1960s?

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Silent Generation vs. the Baby Boomers
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The Silent Generation

• Born between 1925 and 1945
• Grew up during The Great Depression and World War
  II
• Valued loyalty and authority

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Baby Boomers

• Born 1946-1964
• Teenagers during the 1960s and 70s
• Embraced activism and symbols of peace
• Expressed a new distrust toward tradition and
  authority

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Generation Gap

• Lack of understanding and communication between
  the older and younger generations

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• The lesson of the 60's is that people who cared
  enough to do right could change history. We
  didn't end racism but we ended legal
  segregation. We ended the idea that you could
  send half-a-million soldiers around the world to
  fight a war that people do not support. We ended
  the idea that women are second-class citizens. We
  made the environment an issue that couldn't be
  avoided. The big battles that we won cannot be
  reversed. We were young, self-righteous,
  reckless, hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong
  and scared half to death. And we were right."    

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Changes in Music

• Rock and Roll was the defining characteristic of
  the Baby Boomers
• Rock became a weapon of cultural revolution
• Urged listeners to reject conventions and
  political policies of the government

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Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and
dont criticize what you cant understand. Your
sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
The old road is rapidly agin Please get out of
the new one if you cant lend a hand, for the
times they are achangin
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• "White collar conservative flashin down the
  street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they
  all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm
  gonna wave my freak flag high."

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Drug Revolution
-Marijuana, LSD, and other recreational
drugs -Advocated as a way to heighten
consciousness -Tune in, turn on, and drop out
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Sexual Revolution

• Sex became more socially acceptable outside the
  strict boundaries of heterosexual marriage.
• Introduction of the Birth Control Pill
• Stonewall Riots- beginning of the Gay Rights
  Movement

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Hippies

• Experimented with drugs
• Wore unconventional clothing
• Listened to rock music
• Supported political radicals
• San Francisco became the center of the counter
  culture

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Woodstock

• Symbol of the counter culture
• Sometimes called the Woodstock generation

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• http//www.history.com/topics/1960s/videoshippie-
  fashion