Features of 1960s Activism

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Features of 1960s Activism
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• I. Sexual Revolution
• A. Margaret Sanger the Pill
• 1. 1960 first marketing
• 2. 1962 USSC states cannot ban contraception
• 3. 1965 USSC Griswold v. Connecticut
• B. 1964-66 League for Sexual Freedom
• Jefferson Poland, Tuli Kupferberg, Randy Wicker
  ? Free Speech Mov. on campuses
• Make Love, Not War

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• II. New Left Student Movement
• Definition
• A. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  Thomas Hayden
• 1. Civil Rights Participation
• 2. Student Free Speech Movement 1964
• a. vs. Univ. control of recruiting
• b. vs. in loco parentis
• c. Increased anti-war protest
• d.Gov. Ronald Reagan 1967
• 3. Weather Underground 1969
• tiny faction
• Mao Zedongs Little Red Book

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• III. From Civil Rights to Racial Nationalism
• A. African American Activism 1940s-early 60s
• 1. Led by Black Men and Women
• 2. Connected to Churches Nonviolence
• 3. Black-Led, White Auxiliary
• B. Violence, Black Power, the Position of
  Women
• 1. Race Riots 1965-8 (1965 Watts)
• 1965-8 almost 70 riots cf. 1968 168 riots
• 2. Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael
• The Black Panther Party

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• 4. Racial Nationalism Preserving the Race
• contraception abortion genocide?
• Womens role in groups Elaine Brown
• C. Chicano Movement
• 1. 1969 Chicano Youth Liberation Confer.
• El Plan de Aztlán
• 2. Chicano Student Movement
• 3. Mexican American Political Association
• La Raza Unida Party
• 4. Brown Berets 1967-72 anticolonial, alliances
• 5. Chicanas (insulted as agabachadas, vendidas)