the 1960s counterculture- in opposition to mainstream culture
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The 1960s
Counterculture- In opposition to mainstream culture
The 1960s• The 1960s is often described as the
‘Swinging Sixties’ – a time when lots of people had fun!
• A time of significant social change
Music• Pop music became
truly popular in the 1960s
• New bands
• New issues in songs
• Inspired new fashions and new hairstyles.
The British Invasion
• The Beatles• The Rolling Stones• The Who• The Kinks• The Animals• The Hollies• The Zombies• The Troggs
From clean cut to Hippies
FashionMiniskirts
brightly coloured dresses
knee-high Boots
Not like Mom & Dad
Hippies – different clothes, different
hair, different lifestyle!
•Rejecting traditional values and lifestyles•Long hair•Drugs •Communes
Black Americans
in the 1960s• Civil Rights Movement
• Equal rights for Black Americans
• Laws changed
• Attitudes?
Civil Rights & Martin Luther King
• Assassinated on March 29th, 1968• Shot by escaped-convict James Earl Ray, who was captured in London, England,
two months later,trying to travel on a fake Canadian passport to
Rhodesia• His death sparked riots in more than 100 cities
nationwide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PalIIpfhw_g (2:16) ‘Martin Luther King Assination’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IJ7npTYrU (7:48) ‘Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge, 1965: CBC Archives’
John F. Kennedy-US President from 1961-63-Youngest elected to the office at 43-Only Catholic President-First Irish American president-Won the Pulitzer Prize-Assassinated on November 22, 1963•Liberal views on social issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DbhTwahqPg (6:44) ‘JFK’s 10 best speeches’
The Pill-Released in 1957-Prevents the Egg from being fertilized by the sperm-An injection of hormones
Sex = marriage = children
Women started having more freedom
Canadian population decreases
Women in the 1960s• Increase enrollment in Universities
• Increase women with careers.• A women’s protest movement began in the
1960s asking for equal rights for women.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYbs_O_iMfU Aretha Frankin- Respect (2:22)
Problems for the ‘Swinging Sixties’• Generational tension
around DRUGS, SEX & ROCK N ROLL
War and discovery• Two others issues that dominated
the USA (& influenced Canada) during the 1960s were the Vietnam war and Space race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4
-French withdraw-North establishes Communist gov.-USA scared = supports South
Draft Dodgers-20 000 – 30 000 Draft
Dodgers came to Canada
-Accepted as immigrants
1963- Out with Diefenbaker, in with Pearson- A left shift
And in Canada…
Lester B Pearson• His minority government introduced:
• universal health care• student loans• Canada Pension Plan• The new Canadian flag• The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and
Biculturalism
He also brought in Trudeau, Turner and Chretien as cabinet ministers