1. The Outsiders By
S.E. Hinton

2. The Outsiders

3. “The Voice of Youth”, S. E. Hinton
In 1967, Viking Books published The Outsiders by a young woman named Susan Eloise Hinton.

4. “The Voice of Youth”, S. E. Hinton
Her novel about teens growing up in Oklahoma in 1965/1966 was a hit with young people all over the country and earned her the nickname, “The Voice of Youth.”

5. “The Voice of Youth”, S. E. Hinton
She gave young people an author who was “one of their own”, someone who saw the world from their point of view and wrote about the real questions and fears they experienced.

6. S.E. Hinton

7. Setting: Time and Place

8. Setting: Time and Place

9. Setting: Time and Place

10. Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965/1966
The gas stations, dreary streets and housing of the “poor side of town” that the Greaser’s call home.

11. The manicured lawns of upper middle class suburbia where the Socs live.
The theaters drive-ins and burger joints that are common ground.

13. Life in 1965 The high school both neighborhoods attend.
The United States coming out of the innocence of the “50s” into a time of great social and political change.
Life in 1965

14. Main Characters:
Socs-
Greasers-

16. Greasers and
Socs (from Hollywood) :

17. Greaser’s“32” Ford,
Coupe
Socs’ “65”
Ford,
Mustang
Convertable

18. The Greasers: Ponyboy Curtis Sodapop Curtis Darry Curtis Johnny Cade
Dally Winston
Two-bit Mathews
Steve Randle

19. The Socs:
Cherry Valance
Bob Gardner

20. Socs and
Greasers
(Photos from the movie, American
Graffiti )

21. The Times:

22. “The Outsiders was published in 1967, a restless time in the United States when teenagers were outspoken and rebellious.
They hated the Vietnam War and the establishment that caused it to continue.

23. They resented the fact that young people from minorities and underprivileged backgrounds were not given opportunities to succeed.
To voice their dissatisfaction, they had sit-ins and protests: many became hippies, and others turned to drugs.”

24. Cars of the 1960s

25. Hairstyles

26. Clothing styles

28. Books

29. Historical Times of the Sixties
American Forces arrive in Vietnam in 1961
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 2, 1963
The Beatles arrive in the US in 1964
Malcolm X is assassinated Feb. 21, 1965
The Civil Rights Movement successfully advocated equal rights for people of color

30. Historical Times of the Sixties
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on April 4, 1968
Robert F Kennedy is assassinated on June 6, 1968
Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon July 1969
Hippies and the youthful “counter culture” staged the San Francisco Summer of Love in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969

31. Contemporary Personalities :
Dr. M.L. King Jr.
President Johnson (L.B.J.)

33. General W. Westmoreland, Commander of U. S
General W. Westmoreland, Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam 1965 (Painting- Byrd Archives)
Lt. Rick Rescorla 7th air Cav. Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam 1965, leads his men in a bayonet charge against the NVA. [Photo Peter Arnett] (Died 9/11/21 in the WTC, tower #2)

34. Neil A. Armstrong David R. Scott, crew of
Gemini VIII

35. Teen Music Trends:
Elvis Presley
The Beach Boys

36. Hank Williams, Sr.

37. New Trends in Music:
The Beatles (1965)

38. Americas Top 20 TV Favorites in 1966

39. Stars and Idols:
Paul Newman
In The Hustler
(1963)

40. Steve Mc Queen in
The Great Escape (1963)

41. Sean Connery and Ursela Andres- James Bond comes to the screen.

42. Political Tension at Home and Abroad:
March from Selma, Alabama 1965
Civil Rights March.
Ia Drang Valley ,Vietnam 1965,
The fighting heats up.

43. Vietnam LZ XRAY, 1966 (Courtesy of the U.S. Army)
L.B.J decides to increase our role/mission in Vietnam.
(U.S. A. F. Museum)

44. The 1st (Air) Cav. Div., 7th Cav. At Ia Drang, 1965
(U.S. Army Photo)
67th TFS pilots
Da Nang in 1965.
(U.S. Air Force)

45. U.S.M.C.
Gunner,
Near the
DMZ
1967
Raquel Welch with the
Bob Hope Show at
Da Nang, 1968
1st. Cav. Moves
through the Ira
Drang Valley, 1966

46. The Civil Rights Movement Gains Momentum
An attempt to register black voters leads to “Bloody
Sunday” at Selma, Alabama

47. Police confront civil rights marchers in Alabama, 1965
The "Greensboro Four" (1960)
waiting to be served at Woolworth's
Civil Rights Leaders 1965

51. Styles

52. Styles

53. The Beatles

57. Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hire to hold. Her early leafs a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief; So down goes down today. Nothing gold can stay.

58. “Stay gold Ponyboy…!”
- Johnny Cade

59. The Outsiders is a book that shows that “beneath the trappings of madras or leather, individual hearts have much in common.”