60s Politics and
Culture:
California Style
California Surf Culture
Origins
Hawaii
Duke Kahanmoku
Pacific Electric and George Freeth
Post WWII
New Technology--Bob Simmons
50s Surfing as Counterculture
Gidget Brings Surf Culture to America
Romanticized, safe version
60s Radical Politics and the Commercialization of Surfing
Mickey Dora
"Trestles" Battle
Politics of Liberalism
1958 Election
Knowland and Prop 18
Pat Brown’s Liberal Agenda
Civil rights
Master Plan for Higher Education
CA Water Plan
Changing Politics
reapportionment
Nixon and 1962 election
John Birch Society
The Campus comes alive
Students for a Democratic Society (1962)
Port Huron Statement
Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964)
HUAC protests
concerned political rights and free speech
Impact
fostered questioning attitude
no longer accept wisdom of elders
sparked other pol. Protests
Antiwar Movement
Escalation leads to teach-ins
Vietnam Day committee
Draft Protests
Oakland Draft conflict (1967)