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 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 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 1973 Roe v.
Wade
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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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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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US Soldiers testimony, Dellums Committee
Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam
BARNES I think that most of the high cmnd knew
about the things that were happening and the "
reasons that they didn't say too much about it or
nothing was processed through about it was that
the main thing was that the object was to go into
Vnam, and the object was to most of the high
cmnd, it was to kill. That was the thing. To come
in and - I don't mean destroy in the sense of the
word which is what they did really, but if a
couple of civilians got in the way, "Thats not a
big matter. Thats the price of war." Thats how
they considered it. If they heard of mass murders
usually it was an overpass, and it didn't have
too much effect, that type of thing. They didn't
care about it. They didn't have no feelings for
the people at all.
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Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968
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Kent State, May 4, 1970 - National Guard
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John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of
Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway,
kneeling over the dead or dying body of Jeffrey
Miller, shot in the mouth by an unknown Ohio
National Guardsman. 70 - Student Killed