the protest movement
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The Protest Movement. As it relates to the Vietnam War. An Era of Protest. The idea of civil disobedience as a form of protest emerges as successful tactic of African American Civil Rights Movement - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Protest Movement
As it relates to the Vietnam War
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An Era of Protest The idea of civil
disobedience as a form of protest emerges as successful tactic of African American Civil Rights Movement
Mario Savio leads the first college sit-in at UC Berkeley 12/64 protesting campus policies – 800 demonstrators were arrested
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Vietnam War mobilizes youth-Draft 1965: 5000 a month -> 1967:
50,000 a month -deferments: college students -conscientious objectors -draft dodgers: burning draft
cards
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Drafts & Deferments The Draft made all
18+ males eligible Men could defer
based on education or profession
This led to the working-class, poor, and minorities to be more heavily drafted
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Ineligible classifications 1-A –O Conscientious objector for
noncombatant service only 2-S Service deferred – enrolled in college 2-A Service deferred – civilian occupation 3-A Service deferred – has children 4-A Exempt – completed military duty 4-F Disqualified – physical or mental reasons
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RESISTANCESome became conscientious objectorsSome refused to register for the draftProtesters harassed campus ROTC
recruitersAs draft went from 5000/mo to
50,000/mo, the draft resisters swelled
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SDS: Students for a Democratic SocietyApril 1965: 20,000 protests in DCTeachers start protest at Univ. of Mich.1967: 100s of thousands protest in NYC + San Fran. (Doves) April 1968: Columbia Univ. students seize 5 buildings
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Who are the protesters? An amalgam University students
Free speech movement at Berkeley and other schools
Rooted in Civil Rights Movement
60’s Youth Reject parents’ culture Leave it to Beaver-culture is
viewed as: sexist, racist, conformist, restrictive
Poor Draft rules call up
disproportionate numbers of black, Latino, poor white and Native American boys – high school dropouts by far the most likely to serve and die in Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans
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-70% of American believe protests are “acts of disloyalty”
-Jan 1968: Hawks: 62%, Doves: 22%
-March 1968: Hawks: 41%, Doves: 42%
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Democratic Convention - 1968A series of
battles between protestors and Chicago police
598 arrests, 119 police injured, 100 police injured
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1970 -- protests erupt at Kent State: Burn down ROTC building
Governor calls in National Guard, students ordered to disperse
Protestors throw stones, sticks at soldiersSoldiers open fire -- 4 students killed
Kent State
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Their parents: WWII, Great Depression, trust in govt., New Deal
Them: nuclear war, Vietnam, affluence, comfortable, rock music, energetic
Generation gap
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-Hippies: rejection of conservative values-drug use (LSD)-chaste v. free love, hardworking v. unemployedmaterialistic v. inward looking, sober v. drugs, homes v. crash pads, sedate v. vibrant
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Media’s impact on attitudes Media becomes
increasingly critical after Tet Offensive
Cronkite in ’68: “not closer to victory”
June 1968: Life publishes photos of 242 Americans killed in Vietnam in one week
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Implications? Increased uneasiness in the U.S. Greater division between “Hawks” and
“Doves” Increasing numbers consider themselves
“Doves” Also fueled growing Conservatism as a
reaction to the New Left Greater political pressure to get out of
Vietnam