Culture of the Sixties

Spring 2009

Requirements• There is an attendance requirement. You must be in

class: as there is no text for this course, your tests will be based exclusively on lecture notes and discussions based on the readings/materials provided

• You must complete the 3 research assignments per quarter ON TIME: points are deducted for lateness

• If you are absent the day an assignment is due (or day of a test) you have 3 school days to make it up

• You must register with turnitin.com (password: groovy) for your final presentation

• Class websites: http://edmodo.com; http://diigo.com; http://cultureofthe60s.ning.com/

Grades• Each quarter there are 4

assignments:• 3 are Research based, and

must have citations; one is a test

• Historical Event of the Period: 1959-1965

• Artistic Work of the Period: 1959-1965 (Can use animoto.com for these presentations)

• Written Assessment 1• Biographical Research

Assignment: OUTLINE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Second quarter of the course:• Historical Event of the Period:

1966-1970• Artistic Work of the Period:

1966-1970• Written Assessment 2• Final Presentation:

Biographical Project (an Oral, Visual and Written Presentation)

• There will be Pop Quizzes on the Readings!

Culture of the 1960’s• What is Culture? How can it be defined?• Culture (n): The totality of socially transmitted behavior

patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

• These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.

• These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.

• The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.

• Intellectual and artistic activity and the works produced by it.

Culture vs. History:What’s the Difference?

BRAINSTORM:

• Write down EVERYTHING you associate with the 60’s---songs, events, Bands, performers, movies, politicians, famous figures, fashion items, quotes, etc.

4 MAJOR MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960’S

• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT• ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT• WOMEN’S RIGHT’S MOVEMENT• “GREEN” MOVEMENT

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT• Led by Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.• Goal: Equal rights for Black People• Rosa Parks(1955), NAACP, Montgomery Bus

Boycott(1955), Greensboro Sit-Ins(1960), Freedom Rides(1961), March on Washington(1963),Birmingham Protests(1963), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Malcolm X and the ‘Nation of Islam’

WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT• Led initially by Betty Friedan, author of The

Feminine Mystique (1963)• Congress passes the Equal Pay Act (1963),

Civil Rights Act (1964), Legalization of Contraceptives(1966), NOW founded (National Organization for Women—1966), “Feminism” & “Feminist Movement”, Gloria Steinem & National Women's Political Caucus (1971)

ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT• Started mostly by college students (many whom were

eligible for the draft) opposed to the US’s involvement in the Vietnam War

• War began as a civil war between feuding governments in the 1950’s (extension of the “Cold War”)

• US troops were involved from 1965 to 1973• “Free Speech Movement”: UC Berkeley, 61-65• NLF, DMZ, Viet Cong (“VC”), “Charlie”, “Make Love Not

War”, Flower Power (placing flowers in the barrels of soldier’s guns)

“GREEN” MOVEMENT• More applicable to the late 1960’s• Environmental Awareness: led to the first

Earth Day, 1970• Silent Spring (Rachel Carson) published

1962: brought public awareness of the dangers of pesticides (DDT)

1950’s• The 1960’s would not have been the

radical decade that it was, had it not been for the 1950’s

• What do we associate with the 1950’s?• How could the culture and events of the

1950’s (and even before) have influenced the 1960’s?