From Turning the Other Cheek to Black Power
Race, Rights, and the 1960s
Black Power
Cassius Clay and Howard University’s Homecoming
Stories of Black Power
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Mecca experience
Black Power Arrives
Origins of Black Power
SNCC and King
Meredith Walk and Stokely Carmichael
sense of pride
build and celebrate black culture
amass pol and econ. power of black community
Out of the South: Black Panthers
Watts Riots (1965)
Black Panthers
Seale and Newton
10 point program (jobs, exemption from military service, end police brutality
Success and failure
grew too quick; changing ideas; repression
Chicano Movement
Chavez and UFW
Brown Berets
La Raza Unida
Chicano Park (1970)
–Urbanization and Politics
–Alcatraz Island (1969)
•American Indian Movement
–Wounded Knee
Feminism and Liberation in Postwar America
Second Wave of Feminism
Origins
JFK’s Presidential Commission
documented discrimination
Betty Friedan’s "The Feminist Mystique"
the problem without a name
Civil Rights and New Left experiences
recognizing oppression
–end legal and educational discrimination
–National Organization for Women
–origins in New Left and Civ. Rts.
–Consciousness raising
–challenged social/cultural oppression
Radical Feminism
Rights and Lib movements blur
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Equal Rights Amendment
Weaknesses and Failures
homemakers
middle class bias
failure to integrate other races
Gay Liberation
Discrimination
Stonewall Inn Riot
1968
The Year the Dream Died
January-February
Tet Offensive
"light at the end of the tunnel"
January 30 uprising
Public reaction
March-April
Democratic Primary in New Hampshire
Clean Gene McCarthy
LBJ drops out of presidential race
My Lai Massacre
MLK assassination
Summer 1968
RFK Assassination
Eulogy
1968 Democratic National Convention
Daley and "the whole world is watching"
Image of Democratic party in disarray
Fall 1968
Miss America Pageant and Women’s Liberation
1968 Mexico City Olympics and Black Power
John Carlos, Tommy Smith
1968 Presidential Election
Wallace
Nixon