New Social Movements and Vietnam

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New Social Movements and Vietnam

• Black Power
• Feminism
• Free Speech
• Vietnam War
• Antiwar movement
• Counterculture

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Chronology
1962 Port Huron Statement Rachel Carson,
Silent Spring 1963 Betty Friedan, The Feminine
Mystique March on Washington Kennedy
assasinated, Lyndon Johnson President 1964 Civil
Rights Act of 1964 Free Speech movement at
Berkeley Freedom Summer Harlem
riots 1965 Malcolm X assasinated Voting Rights
Act Immigration Reform Act Watts riot Ralph
Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed 1966 National
Organization for Women organized Black Panther
Party Founded 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.
assasinated Democratic National Convention in
Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss
America Beauty Pageant protest 1969 Stonewall
riot Indians of All Nations occupy Alcatraz
island Fred Hampton murdered by FBI
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New York Times photograph made after President
John F. Kennedys assassination
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Malcolm X and Martin Lulther King, Jr.
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Black Panthers
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Black Panther Party pamphlet, 1970
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Students for Democratic Society poster, 1972
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Wounded Knee protest, 1973
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Women in Labor Force, 1940-1987
1940 1950 1960 1970 1987 Millions 13.8 17.8
22.5 31.2 53.0 Percentage Employed Single 48 46
43 51 65 Married 17 23 32 40 56 With
children 6 NA 12 19 30 57 6-17 NA 28 39 49 71
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Cold War - Vietnam War Chronology
1961 Bay of Pigs 1962 Port Huron
Statement Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Betty
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique March on
Washington Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Johnson
President 1964 Free Speech movement at
Berkeley Freedom Summer Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution 1965 Malcolm X assasinated 1966 Nationa
l Organization for Women organized Black
Panther Party Founded 1968 Tet offensive Martin
Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic
National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon
elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant
protest 1969 Stonewall riot Indians of All
Nations occupy Alcatraz island 1970 The Ohio
National Guard kills four students at Kent
State 1972 Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment
(not ratified by states) 1973 Paris peace
agreement ends war in Vietnam for America
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Vietnam War map
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My Lai massacre
Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of
General Nguy?n Ng?c Loan executing Nguy?n Van
Lém, a Viet Cong officer.
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My Lai massacre
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Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968
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Kent State, May 4, 1970 - National Guard
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Kent State, May 4, 1970 - Student Killed