Student Protest

Which is the odd one out?

Drink alcohol Rent a car

Join the army Gamble

Why was America so divided in the 1960s and 1970s?

Young people challenged the established order.

The Vietnam War. Leaders of America seeming out of

step with the ideals of the youth.

Young people: 1960s fashion

Protest and change

Hippies and flower power

Woodstock, 1969

For what it’s worth

There's somethin' happenin' hereWhat it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over thereA tellin' me, I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?Everybody look what's going downThere's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrongYoung people speakin' their minds

A gettin' so much resistance from behindTime we stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going downWhat a field day for the heat

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)A thousand people in the street

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)Singing songs and they carrying signs

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)Mostly say, hooray for our side

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

Young people challenged the establishment

Describe the changes in some young people’s clothes in the 1960s? In the early 1960s clothes were....however by the end of the 1960s...

After listening to the contrast in music, explain why protest songs became important to young people. Protest songs became important because

Why did some teachers and parents criticise the hippie lifestyle? Some teachers and parents criticised the hippie lifestyle because...

The Vietnam War

Why did the Vietnam War lead to student unrest?

Protest against Vietnam

U.S Forces in South Vietnam

1962 9,000 Kennedy Administration

1963 15,000

1964 16,000 Johnson Administration

1965 60,000

1966 268,000

1967 449,000

1968 535,000

1969 539,000 Nixon Administration

1970 415,000

1971 239,000

1972 47,000

President Lyndon B. Johnson

Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill

today?

Read the slogan above. Why did people demonstrators chant this? What does it mean?

In World War II the average age of an American soldier was 26 years old.

What do you think was the average

age of an American soldier

in Vietnam?

19What does the average age of an American soldier tell us about the reasons for student protest?

A television war

These images shocked the people of America and the world, for the first time the true horror of war was seen

What impact would these photos and television images have on the support for the Vietnam war?

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

University of California, Berkeley

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Michael Rossman, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests unprecedented in scope, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom.

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Students were raising money for civil rights groups when only fund raising for the democrats or republicans was allowed.

When Jack Weinberg refused to show his student ID card he was arrested and placed in a police car. Up to 3,000 students surrounded the police car which remained stationery for 32 hours

The faculty staff had been required to swear an oath of allegiance which some of them questioned...would this influence their ability to teach freely?

On December 2nd 1964 between 1,500 and 4,000 students took part in a sit-in to try and persuade the university to lift it’s restrictions on political activities. 800 students were arrested. This lead to another sit in a month later that almost shut the university down.

Consequences

In January 1965 the new chancellor at Berkeley allowed political activites

This was seen as the beginning of student activism

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

What three things did students at university demand?

What methods did the SDS use?

Make love not war!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJFvtvTGEk