<p>culture and social changes 1960s******</p>
<p>conflict historiography- study of how history is written, consensus historians of the 1950s emphasized compromise as the key characteristic of change, conflict historians believe that change occurs through conflict</p>
<p>new left-SDS, interested in social change, not explicitly socialist, even though many in the organizations were socialists, rejected the old left of stalinism, tried to differentiate themselves from the debates over totalitarianism by claiming that america did not need a police state to enforce equality</p>
<p>intro
protestors were ordinary people who were agents of changepostwar booom, contrast with depression culture of parents</p>
<p>moral and intellectual roots
moreal roots came from civil rights movement, intellectual from analysis of four main thinkiners, encouraged free expression intellectually and sexually</p>
<p>cultural roots
jazz and blues, casual aceptance of marijuana, beats </p>
<p>political organizations
students for a democratic society- founded by port huron document which called for letting hte people decide, educative creative work
SDS was a new left organization, when the vietnam war did not end in response to their demonstrations, some called for violence agains the united states war machine, splitting sds up into factions
the weathermen decided to become terrorists in america to save the world from more vietnams, four weathermen died in an explosion in a townhouse in NYC, SDS terrorism died with them</p>
<p>free speech movement
UC berkeley, grew out of civil rights demonstrations in san francisco, students were fighting to be treated with respect, free speech movement of 1964 grew into an antiwar organization called vietnam day committee</p>
<p>yippies
hoffman organized a group of anerchists to oppose the war in vietnam, these tippies poured garbage bags full of dollar bills from the balcony onto the floor of the new york stock exchange, protested against war by marching with pictures of lyndon johnson upside down</p>
<p>black panthers
oakland, california, contradictory, huey newton, bobby seale, eldridge cleaver carried unconcealed weapons, demanded a socialist america that would protect all its citizens from violence and poverty, in the meantime, they would protect their community and provide breakfasts for poor black children, their speeches were long harangues</p>
<p>united farm workers
cesar chavez organized mexican migrant workers in california. they formed this union, called for boycotts of grapes and lettuce, also the american indian movement began to obtain equal rights for native americans, they led a protest at the historic site of the wounded knee massacre in 1973</p>
<p>currents in history writing
history discussed in terms of change, conflict historiography, everything no longer turned out for the best, not everyone agreed with the presidents, slavery and the lives of blacks, women, minorities were treated more extensively </p>
<p>music
motown, bob dylan, joan baez was the symbol of the fold revival, bob dylan wrote “like a rolling stone” a description of how hard it is to make choices for yourself when you have no one to take care of you</p>
<p>beatles and the rolling stones
beatles played on ed sullivan show, mick jagger explained that he had named his band the Rolling STones after one of waters’ songs, the stones’ songs had more violence and hostility</p>
<p>classical music of india was brought to india by shankar, psychedelic rock through songs such as “lucy in the sky with diamonds” “purple haze” </p>
<p>monterey and woodstock
out door concer, latter was a concert in which drugs and nudity were prevalent</p>
<p>hippies
readers of eastern philosophies of hinduism, buddhism, zen buddhism, taoism, one with nature-alan watts
timothy leary was the leader, believed that LSD could create teh experience of contentment, “turn on, tune in, drop out” some joined communes, flocked to haight ashbury</p>
<p>summary
a movement culture developed, thousands of people would turn out for demonstrations, young epople were listening to the same music, from dylan to the beatles, from hendrix to the stones, movement lost its steam by the 70s, the draft was ending to only those most committed to radical change were participating in antiwar activities
disco took over</p>
what do you think?</p>