Other Movements

Question 1

Why were there so many protest movements?

Answer 1

• 76 million babies born post-World War II “baby boom.”
• 1960s this generation was entering college.
• Colleges teemed with young people to question the moral and health of the US
• war (vietnam)
• Students objected to the draft
• the methods of the war
• the high casualties
• media who beamed pictures of the war

Impact of civil rights protest)

• many young had protested in civil rights movement
• they used their experience to organise more protests
• ->highlighted parts of society they wanted to change

‘Teenager’)

• before 1950s young acted like parents
• in 1950s teens rebelled against parents and their beliefs
• separate culture for teens emerged
• rebel without cause (movie)

Question 2

SDS: Students for a Democratic Society

formed in 1959 at the University of California at Berkeley by student Tom Hayden.

Answer 2

formed in 150 colleges and universities and had 100,000 members by 1968

demand for better education)
-Women’s education advanced 29% 1930s to 41% 1970s
-Stood up for all minorities
True equality

• The Port Huron statement was the political manifesto of the SDS
• against racial injustice + war + violation of human rights

Question 3

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Answer 3

• University of California, Berkeley
• students banned from handing out leaflets as they were advertising events outside of the university
• police came and arrested them
• unfair + retaliated protesting by packing uni buildings
• lost supporters when swearing (filthy speech movement)
• promoted and encouraged student activism nationally
• publicity (arrests + packing buildings)

Question 4

The kent state shooting

Answer 4

• students protesting against the war
• attacking police, throwing stones + damaging property
• led to a fire in one of the university buildings
• next day the anti war rally continued
• police throw tear gas
• guards opened fire killing 4 people
• caused a national student strike
• many universities closing down for the time being

-Vietnam

Question 5

anti vietnam war movement causes

Answer 5

Drafts)

• unfair
• young (average age = 21)
• high percentage of lower class and coloured drafted
• rich students get out of draft
• 1969 62% of draftees killed

Atrocities in the war on tv uncensored)

• Napalm and Agent Orange
• search and destroy mission (kill villagers + burn homes)
• Uncensored tv showed the horrors of war
• burning of villages + injured children

Question 6

anti vietnam war movement events

Answer 6

• The kent state shooting (4 killed)
• burning draft cards
• “hey hey lbj how many kids did you kill today” slogan
• SDS March on Washington 1965
• largest peace protest up to that point (25,000)
• April 15, 1967 New york peace demonstration
• 150 drafy cards burnt
• mlk speech

Question 7

anti vietnam war movement impacts

Answer 7

National division)

• people saw that it was unpatriotic to burn draft cards while soldiers are fighting
• disgusted by the flag-burning and draft dodging
• Nixon called those shot at Kent “bums”
• kent students, publicly burned the Constitution

questioned morality)

• people saw the media broadcasts
• saw horrors of war
• Vietnam heroes threw away the medals they had won fighting in the war.
• “Here’s my merit badges for murder.”

Question 8

Hippies

Answer 8

Changed society/culture)

• Homosexuality and transsexuality became more accepted
• legalised homosexuality during the 1970s
• Drug-taking also became more popular
• unusual clothes
• rock music

shock)

• many viewed hippies as wasters
• shocked they would reject society their parents built