Section 2 (The Protest Generation) By: aLLIE CARNEY

Pre- Quiz

Lets Goooooo... 1. What does SDS stand for ? 2. What is CRM A. safety data sheet B.  Safety communication standards C. Students for democracy society

Continued... 3. Who is Timothy Leary 4. What is ORT and A. a man who promoted a drug     what was it? B.  soldier who fought in cival war C. The artist who wrote "blowin in the wind"

The New Left: Student Activism In The Sixties During the sixties, a growing number of idealistic young Americans grew dissatisfied with the cultural  monotony of consumer society, repressive sexual mores, Cold War conflicts, and centrist politics. Rebellious young Americans in the 1960s questioned nearly all of the assumptions underlying these viewpoints, offering a new left perspective on all problems of their time. So basically they proved more willing than their elders to criticize establishment institutions and traditional values.

Students For A Democratic Society No group articulated the priorities of the New Left(a  broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.) more clearly than Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which was also formed in the 1960s.

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement The first large-scale New Left student movement arose on the campus at the University of California at Berkeley. Student activists there led a "free speech movement" which pushed for their right to campaign for off-campus social and political causes  at the university. In the fall semester of 1964, student activists returned to campus after working for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project and set up information tables on campus to support the CRM ( civil right movement).

Reaction From The Right: Young Americans For Freedom The rise of left- wing student movements during the sixties produced a backlash from activist conservative students at universities  across the nation. The largest of these groups were called the Young Americans for Freedom ( YAF) it was established in September 1960.

The Sexual Revolution and Women's Movement At the same time young americans in the early 1960s were beginning to speak out more ,an becoming more interested in events that were going on. Their pesonal lives were being affected by medical breakthroughs and court rulings that were related to the sexual behavior of all behavior of all americans.  In the 1960s they approved the Food and Drugs Adminastration act. An created a birth control.

Birth Control And Women's Rights When the FDA approved the PILL, the opened the door to a new way of thinking about sexual relations between men and women. In some states lawmakers opposed contraception even for a  married couples. But in 1965 the U.S.  Supreme Court  declared in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) that states could not  let black married couples access to artificial methods of birth control. In Roe v. Wade (1973), the court weighed a pregnant woman's right to privacy against the states interest in the pregnancy.

The Liberal Womens Movement And Politics This commission reported on the many inequities women faced in the labor market and in education and helped bring about the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which required employers to pay men and women equal wages for work. The federal government was drawing attention to women's lack of equality in the workforce, an author named Betty Friedan published her groundbreaking book The Feminine Mystique (1963).

Extra Facts Operation Rolling Thunder- Massive bombing campaign that would last for 3 years Che Guevara-  idol to american teenagers ,  he saw Vietnam as a symptom of the moral bankruptcy of western capitalist systems.

More extra facts Timothy Leary-promoted a drug that he said let the mind escape Counter culture- basically expressed their own youthful values and bielfs