Youth Culture in the 60s

and 70s

Social Movements
Fashion
Mini Skirts
False
Tie
Dye
Lashes
Mini Skirts
False
Lashes
Paisley Print
Bell bottoms
Fashion
Tie Dye

Social Movements

Timehomosexuality
First
publishes article
related
on Homosexuality
discharge frominarmy
Ameri
su
FirstRights
LGBT demonstrations start
Gay
Jose
First
LGBT demonstrations
Extremely
anti gay

start
First openly gay political candidate for chair on Boa

GayExtremely
Rightsanti gay

First
homosexuality related discharge from army su
Jose
Timestrike
First
publishes
downarticle
on Sodomy
on Homosexuality
Laws
in Ameri
First openly
strike down
gay political
on Sodomy
candidate
Laws for chair on Boa

Social Movements

Equal
The
Pillpay
makes
acts cover of Time
Focused on sexuality,
Contraceptive
becomes
family,
free in
workplace,
UK
reproductive rights, de fac
Focused on sexuality, family, workplace, reproductive rights, de fac

Second Wave Feminism

Second
Feminism
InternationalWave
Womens Day

The Discrimination
Sex
Pill makes cover
act
of Time
Contraceptive
Sex
Discrimination
becomes
act free in UK
Equal pay acts
International
Womens Day
Supreme Court says laws prohibiting abortion are illegal

Social Movements
Astrology
Spirituality

Psychedelic
Astrology drugs
Meditation
yoga
Psychedelicand
drugs
Spirituality
Mysticism
Meditation and yoga
Mysticism

Social Movements

Hippies were
Rejection
of social
the largest
normscounterculture
of the 1950s group
High rejection
Prevalent
among
of materialistic
the white, middle
basedclass
American
youthDrea
wh
Ban the Bomb
Rejection
of social
protests
norms
introduced
of the 1950s
the iconic peace
High rejection of materialistic based American Drea
Ban the Bomb protests introduced the iconic peace
Hippies were the largest counterculture group
Prevalent among the white, middle class youth wh

Counterculture
Counterculture

Social Movements
What came
of it:
Sexual
revolution
Public nudity

Contraception
Legalization of abortions
Public nudity
Normalization of homosexuality, premarital sex,
Legalization of abortions
Contraception
Normalization of homosexuality, premarital sex,
The pill

A challenge towards the traditional behavio

A challenge towards the traditional behavio
What came of it:

Sexual
revolution
The pill

Political Movements

University
Believed
students
that it was
in the
the
1960s
governments
had grownjob
upto
during
ensure
postwar
prosperity
prosperit
for a
University
Believed
students
that it was
in the
the
1960s
governments
had grownjob
upto
during
ensure
postwar
prosperity
prosperit
for a

Political Movements

In 1962,
Viewed
at Port
poverty,
Huron,
nuclear
SDS put
weapons,
forth a and
manifesto
racial discrimination
called the Portas
Huron
evils
In 1962,
Viewed
at Port
poverty,
Huron,
nuclear
SDS put
weapons,
forth a and
manifesto
racial discrimination
called the Portas
Huron
evils

Political Movements
Port Huron Statement Excerpt
We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort,
housed now in the universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we
inherit.
When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest and strongest
country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred
by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations that we thought would
distribute Western influence throughout the world. Freedom and equality
for each individual, government of, by, and for the people-these
American values we found good, principles by which we could live as
men. Many of us began maturing in complacency.
As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too
troubling to dismiss. First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human
degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry,
compelled most of us from silence to activism. Second, the enclosing fact
of the Cold War, symbolized by the presence of the Bomb, brought
awareness that we ourselves, and our friends, and millions of abstract
"others" we knew more directly because of our common peril, might die
at any time. We might deliberately ignore, or avoid or fail to feel all other

Political Movements

Greater opposition of students to the escalation of the Vietnam war

Increasing enrolment of students in university
The Continued
SDS continued
protest
to grow
against
over
local
thecampus
years issues
The Continued
SDS continued
protest
to grow
against
over
local
thecampus
years issues

Political Movements

Inspired
Manyby
sit-ins
protest
hadatmotivations
Berkley University,
in improving
the late
campus
1960s
life
saw
as other
opposed
camt
Inspired
Manyby
sit-ins
protest
hadatmotivations
Berkley University,
in improving
the late
campus
1960s
life
saw
as other
opposed
camt

Political Movements
Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Beginning in 1964, anti-Vietnam was demonstrations were organize

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Atwere
this time
a keythese
demographic
demonstrations
of thosewere
whosmall
opposed
and the
contained
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a si
Youth
Atwere
this time
a keythese
demographic
demonstrations
of thosewere
whosmall
opposed
and the
contained
VietnamtoWar
a si

Political Movements
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Massive
demonstration
and teach in
Moratorium
to end
the war

October
15, 1969
Massive
demonstration and teach in
Vietnam Moratorium
Speakers
like Bill
Clinton people, but millions participated thou
Most
in Boston
100,000
Most in Boston
100,000
Speakers
like Bill
Clinton people, but millions participated thou
Moratorium
to end
the war
October 15,
1969

Political Movements
Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Escalation
of bombing
Cambodia
led to protests at Kent State Univer
67 rounds
fired by of
National
Guard
67killed,
rounds
fired by National Guard
4
9 injured
4 killed,
Ohio
National
9 injured
Guard called after 4 days of protests
Escalation
Ohio National
of bombing
Guard
of called
Cambodia
afterled
4 days
to protests
of protests
at Kent State Univer

Political Movements
The New Left

Applied class perspective of Marxism onto the post wa