Student protest Movements

Question 1

What were the 4 student protests?

Answer 1

1. Student for a Democratic Society (SDS)
2. The Berkley Free Speech Movement (FSM)
3. The Vietnam War
4. Hippies

Question 2

What was SDS about?

Answer 2

non-violent protest, aims included equality, economic justice, peace and democracy

Question 3

What did SDS do?

Answer 3

• staged demonstration on campus and went to work alongside SNCC
• campaigns for things such as : free school lunches, better education and more participation in local politics
• After 1965, SDS students campaigned to give uni students greater say on courses and how uni was run
• Opposition to Vietnam War became one of their main focuses
• 1965 - SDS organised first major demonstration and group was recognised as anti-war
• Many members of SDS took part in civil rights sit ins and freedom rides 1961-62

Question 4

What was the Impact / significance of SDS ?

Answer 4

• 150 colleges involved SDS, then rose to 400 and then 100,000 by the end of the 1960s.
• Membership dramatically increased in 1966 because of Opposition to Vietnam War

Question 5

6 reasons why the students were protesting

Answer 5

1. Vietnam War
2. Civil Rights movement
3. Emergence of the teenager
4. Increase in student numbers
5. Protest singers
6. Television viewers

Question 6

How did increase in student numbers affect student movement?

Answer 6

• Increase in birth rate after WW” sue to economic upturn meant more students were in higher education
• Society had to listen to their views as there were so many of them

Question 7

How did civil rights protests affect student movement?

Answer 7

• Many white and black students took part in the civil right protests
• had used experience to organise protests, using similar methods to highlight other parts of society they weren’t happy with
• CRM inspired groups who believed they were facing similar prejudice and discrimination (Hispanic Americans)