SIXTIES FREEDOM

ByMadonna Scott

Sixties Freedom

Rosa Parks• December 1, 1955• No more humiliation• Arrested

• City owned bus company boycott• Lasted 381 days

• Supreme Court ruling – segregation unconstitutional

• Later years• Not happy yet

The Freedom Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr.• Young pastor

• Eloquent speaker

• Bridged races

• Formed Montgomery Improvement Association

• Launched Chicago Freedom Movement

The Freedom Movement

Vietnam war• U.S.feared Communist

takeover of Vietnam• Lyndon B. Johnson

concerned about image

• Requested legislation securing right to vote

• Great Society programs – War on Poverty

• Medicare• Medicaid

The Freedom Movement

Little RockCentral High School• Governor Faubus

• National Guard

• “Little Rock Nine”

• Court Order

• Federal troops to enforce order

The New Left Struggle for

freedom Sit-ins at Berkley

Free speech movement

Fixed up park Reagan had

National Guard fence off the park and guard it

Sit-in at Liberty Bell Support southern

drive for voting rights

Sexual Freedom Sexual pleasure

Communes Birth control pills

Separated sex from reproduction

Erotic revolution “Second wave” of

feminism Women’s liberation

movement Trashed undies

Known as burning their bras

The Rights Revolution Chief Justice Warren

Court revitalized Bill of Rights First Amendment

Freedom of press ruling said had right to critize government

Constitutional right to privacy Referred to as protection against journalistic intrusion By 60’s – meant the ability to conduct private life

without feal of govermental invasion Legal rights of women expanded

No-fault divorce laws Prosecuting marital rape and assalt helped free

women