do now: primary source activity: the student movement p. 911
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Do Now:
• Primary Source Activity: The Student Movement p. 911
The Antiwar Movement
Counterculture• Communes
– Communities in which living quarters, food, and work were shared
• “Hippies” “Flower Children”– Rejected their parents’ values
– Experimented with hallucinogenic drugs to expand their awareness
The Summer of Love - 1967
Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco• 100,000 teenagers and college students
drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia.
• Free food and free love were available
• A Free Clinic was established for medical treatment
• Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them.
Charles Manson• Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer
who has become an icon of evil.
• In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult group known as "the Family" whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf.
Haight Ashbury
“New Left”
Counter Culture
1960’Society
Woodstock
Hippies
“Make love not war”
Peace, Love & Music
Dr. Timothy Leary
Turn On! Tune In! Drop Out!“Don’t trust anyone over 30”
Free Speech Movement
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS)
TomHayden Port Huron
Platform
Government Opposition
Jan 1966 - Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Televised Senators doubts about the
war
May 1967 - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara begins to question America’s role in the war
Student ProtestsStudent Deferments• Students in college were safe from the
draft
Conscientious Objectors• Men belonging to an organized religious
body with pacifist views were not drafted
Draft Dodgers• Men simply refused to report when
drafted
Woodstock• Music festival held on Max
Yasgur's farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969
• Exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era."
Do Now:Protest and Peace Talks p. 899
Violence on Campus
University & colleges held
teach-ins to study the history of the
war and to protest its expansion
–Columbia Univ., New York City
–Kent State Univ., Ohio
–Jackson State, Mississippi
Columbia University
In 1968, Mark Rudd, Columbia Univ. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)held a rally protesting university complicity
with the war.
Students seized college buildings.
Civil disobedience turned to violence when confrontations with police nightstick beatings and brick throwing started to take place.
April 23-27, Columbia Univ. is practically shut down as Columbia SDS launches an unprecedented antiwar demonstration.
Kent State
• 1970 rally protesting the presence of the ROTC on campus.
• Skirmish between the students and the Ohio National Guard, called in to contain the protestors.
• This skirmish resulted in the fatal shootings of four people.
• Even more tragically, only two of these four were active participants in the rally: the other two were an innocent student walking to class and an ROTC cadet
Allison Krause350 feet awayshot through the arm and chest
Jeff Miller275 feet awayshot through the head
Sandy Scheuer400 feet awayshot through the throat
Bill Schroeder400 feet awayshot in the back
Students Killed at Kent State