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Counterculture idealistic youth (influenced by beat movement of the 1950s)

-non-conformists: rejected fashion, tradition, and morals

White, poor and middle class youth opposed conformity of elders

-”Tune in, turn on, drop out”

Timothy Leary

Left school, home, work, trying to create an idyllic community

-hippies characterized by:

rock music, radical appearance, drug use, communal living, eastern religions, Haight-Ashbury center of the counterculture movement

-counterculture turned violent and failed to cope with reality of surviving

Changing Culture

-hippie generation left its cultural influence in fine arts and social attitudes that still exist today

-pop art focused on everyday looking art, bright and mass produced

Andy Warhol- most well-known pop art artist

-fashion trends blue jeans, tie-dye, bandanas, love beads, military garments

-rock music

British Invasion (Beatles)

form of protest, helped rock become mainstream

Woodstock, 1969 free music festival in NY for 3 days

-sexual revolution: casual and permissive attitudes

-conservative backlash— some people thought America was losing sense of right and wrong

Movements in the 1960s

• Civil Rights Movements

• Women’s Rights Movement

• Latino Rights Movement

• American Indian Movement

All of these grass roots movements All of these grass roots movements wanted to restore democracy and wanted to restore democracy and create equality for all!create equality for all!

Women’s Movement-feminism

belief in equality with men economically, socially, & politically

-more women in the workforce but jobs still restricted called “glass ceiling”

-Betty Freidan led movement wrote

“Feminine Mystique”, 1963

book called on women to examine their lives for true happiness

-book helped spark the women’s movement for millions, more organized due to success of Civil Rights Movement

-Group that opposed women’s liberation called the NEW RIGHT

Women Fight for Rights -NOW established National Organization for Women, helped found by Betty Friedan

-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated discrimination claims

-Equal Pay Act passed

-Gloria Steinem editor of Ms. Magazine

-Roe v. Wade, 1973

made abortion legal

-Title IX: outlawed sexual discrimination in schools, equal funding of athletics

-ERA equal rights amendment never was ratified by the needed 38 states, opposed by Phyllis Schlaffy

Latino Rights

-great increase in Latino populations

-many lived in segregated barrios Spanish speaking neighborhoods -faced discrimination and poverty

-Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers unionize and protest, also boycotted grape industry

-fight for better education and political power

Demand equal opportunity and respect for culture

La Raza Unida (Latino Political Party) formed by Jose Gutierrez, several candidates elected to local office

Native Americans

-US policy toward Indians had always been a failure

Bleak with Indians having little control

-American Indian Movement

wanted faster changes and reforms of Indian policy

Often a militant group that was known for using violence

protests of broken treaties “Trail of Broken Treaties”

-Indian groups won back some tribal lands and have been given greater control over Indian affairs

Activity for Today

• Complete 1960s review

• 1960s Section of Study Guide

• EOC Packet

Video takes about 15 minutes….covers entire page.

1. What was an important outcome of the Native American legal battles in the 1970s and 1980s?

a. Some tribes regained lost lands

b. Public schools were forced to accept reservation children

c. Native American women achieved equal rights with men

d. The government improved reservation housing

2. What success did the women’s movement achieve in the 1970s?

a. Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

b. A ban on gender discrimination in all school-related programs receiving federal funding

c. Equal representation in the nation’s law and medical schools

d. The shattering of the so-called “glass ceiling”

3. With which person or persons of the 1960s/1970s would conservatives have been most comfortable?

a. Timothy Leary

b. Richard Nixon

c. Andy Warhol

d. The Beatles

4. What impact did Title IX have on educational institutions in the United States?

a. Use of quotas for enrollment

b. Creation of standardized testing

c. Gov’t funded school vouchers

d. Equal funding of men and women’s athletics

5. All of the following are legal gains of the women’s rights movement except?

a. Roe v. Wade

b. Title IX

c. Equal Pay Act

d. Equal Rights Amendment

6. Which of the following is NOT true about the hippie or counter culture generation?

a. Violent incidents and drug use led to the demise of this generation

b. They believed that America was losing its moral sense of right and wrong

c. They frequently practiced transcendental meditation and Eastern religions

d. They were characterized by radical appearances and permissive attitudes towards sex

7. Cesar Chavez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American

a. Voters

b. Students

c. Farm workers

d. Factory workers

8. The modern feminist movement became more organized and focused after

a. Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Movement

b. Publication of the Feminine Mystique

c. Publication of the first issue of Ms. Magazine

d. Founding of the National Women’s political caucus

9. All of the following are true of the Latino Rights movement except

a. They joined with Native Americans to actively protest the federal gov’t

b. They lived in segregated barrios and faced extreme poverty

c. Immigration increased by 6 million in the 1960s

d. They believed in non-violent protests and boycotts

10. Whose book the Feminine Mystique inspired women to question their lives and began the women’s liberation movement?

a. Phyllis Schlafly

b. Gloria Steinmen

c. Robin Morgan

d. Betty Friedan