More Related Content Similar to The 1960s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, Counterculture Similar to The 1960s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, Counterculture (20) The 1960s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, Counterculture17. 1954 – ruled segregation unconstitutional in public schools 21. Originally focused on legislation to end lynching (the Jesse Washington case was paramount to their cause) 32. Played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides of the Civil Rights movement 34. Freedom Summer of 1964 – got both whites and blacks involved with protesting Civil Rights in the South 37. Protesters would go to restaurants for whites only and sit there all day (typically drug stores with lunch counters) 51. Black people were the very first humans and that whites had emerged out of scientific experiments of mad scientists 52. The mad scientists were attempting to use these experiments to dilute the strength of the original African people 54. Elijah Poole – gets converted by W.D. Fard and takes over the movement; takes the name “Elijah Mohammed” 58. The massive decolonization of African countries in the 1940s and 1950s greatly enhances the idea that Africa is worthy of activists’ attention, pride, and respect 59. This generates the idea that African-Americans controlling their political destiny should be a significant pillar of the Civil Rights movement 61. Was not a program, but is a representative mood of disillusionment and alienation from a white-dominated America 62. June 1966 – James Meredith wants to prove that conditions are different in Mississippi 63. Planned to march through Mississippi in an attempt to convince blacks that they can vote 95. Cold War mentality; new initiatives aimed at countering communist influence throughout the world 102. October 1962 – American spy planes discover that the Soviet Union was installing missiles in Cuba that were capable of reaching the United States (fear of nuclear warfare) 109. Johnson takes the oath of office on Air Force One 2 hours and 8 minutes after Kennedy was shot 111. The most sweeping proposal for government action to promote welfare since the New Deal 112. Unlike the New Deal, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, not depression 117. The Vietnam War was greatly responsible for the Great Society’s demise 120. Ran on a platform of law and order, appealing to the “Silent Majority” 121. Backlash to the anti-war movement, Civil Rights movement, and the counterculture (and all the riots associated with all of the above) 138. Relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to counter North Vietnam’s large number of troops 144. If South Vietnam falls to communism, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand would fall to communism 161. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) – assist any country against communist aggression 162. He did not want to be the first president to lose a war 163. Both he and Kennedy ignored the Vietnamese culture and their resistance to imperial powers 165. Not keen on adopting the guerilla tactics of the Vietnamese 166. The real victim of the Vietnam War under the Johnson administration was his Great Society legislation 174. After the New York Times reported on this campaign, Nixon becomes paranoid of leaks in his administration 176. Nov. 3, 1969 – Nixon announces that American defeat in Vietnam would lead to a communist massacre and a collapse of confidence in American leadership (becomes a justification to escalate the war) 195. They came of age when there was great pressure for change politically 198. If the Kennedy and Johnson administrations could not bring about change, they had to do it themselves 202. Everything is controlled by a team of “experts” (sprung up out of the Cold War mentality where everything is intellectually and technologically superior) 206. Students attempting to reconcile democratic ideals within the context that they should be taking orders and not thinking for themselves 214. Those who became involved with anti-war movement and the Civil Rights movement 237. 1964 – administration decided that students could no longer set up tables on campus to support off-campus causes 241. 21 September 1964 – nearly all the campus organizations decided to unite and violate the table ban (under the argument of freedom of speech) 242. One of the leaders was confronted and told to come to the office 247. Jack Wineberg – organizes students to set up tables over civil rights and political agendas 249. Over 100 other students show up in a free speech rally; demand to be arrested 250. Crowd around the police cruiser; stage a sit-in around the car which grows to 3000 people 251. Lasted for 30 hours; ended when the Berkeley president decides to meet with students 252. It was the first massive campus demonstration in the 1960s