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1960's-Civil Rights & Liberal Activism

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the late 1960s and early 1970s are unique in American history some people welcome to struggle than taking place cultural revolution other shiaway kuntu traditional more comfortable values and seeking the return to order and stability whatever their point of you people are determined to be hurt people taking their political fate Instagram and organize mobilizing Grassroots for that model of political action direct nonviolent action social protest pause the technique would be used again and again by the movements that we most associated with the new left by the 760 the emergence of the women's movement in the 1970s by the environmentalist  I had been involved in some student activist organizations and Play Hall a bumper sticker that we used to think was quite logical America love it leave an orange within our Democratic responsibility to try to derail our nation if it was headed towards a Trainwreck of putting its value turn its resources in this blood and treasure in exactly the wrong causes and for the wrong reasons absolutely alien it never crossed my mind I took a paid position of Secretary of student government never to Colorado and that led to tending the big National congress's starting in 64 that was an experience because in those days the people that went into student government where five it happens they were active Engage The cared about civil rights and it was very elephant I'm in the debates I can remember that next to the day the summer of 1968 caps off a series of intense confrontation students and administrators on college campuses across the country the most traumatic of which was the occupation for several days of Federal Building student radicals on the campus of Columbia University in New York City they negotiated over a variety of issues including the university supports of War defense for starch in ROTC and especially the University's plan to try to build new facilities in the neighboring part one that had used by the overwhelmingly black communities of Harlem the breaking up of Columbia apprising radicalize many students laughing involved in and not even supported the demonstration but we're outraged by what they saw at the excessive use of force in older generation has it gone through the depression an older generation to the concert World War II had difficulty in seeing these broader more fans of definitions of a citizen's right so yeah those are an incredibly passionate time and Tom Hayden one of the leaders of the radical students movement FBI talk about that one two three many Columbia's and that we are moving from protesting against what they thought the unfit use the power by the establishment taking power for ourselves  closely related to the new left is a youth culture than openly storms the values and Convention flash Society young people are seizing upon things that have been changing the 1950s and start making them political and making them over if the ambiguity and the message message to provide the energy for people to try to experiment and understand and work their way out of these kinds of dilemmas play certainly on The Counter Culture becomes identified very heavily San Francisco with Los Angeles that way around the world, you not to didn't take place places 15 grand much is a western phenomena the new Jaguar demonstrations in San Francisco or Los Angeles have a different tone in a different flavors steak place in Ann Arbor Madison New York City people love your hated the sixties they certainly Associated much of it with the west and even then face reality alternative sexuality the success of the civil rights movement in the 1960s encourages other manure to assert themselves I grew up in Miami find out about eight or nine years old at the time I was fascinated by this sign over the water found it said colored and I stop that water of different colors was going to come out of the phone and when I went to that Fountain and touched it my babysitter came running over to don't touch that that dirty that has germs on it that's for colored people that's roughly 1961 1962 that beginning of the 1960s by the end of the 1960s which we historians engine 73 or 74 something that you wouldn't find one more during the 1970s Hoops of American start to Subway themselves and organized around Suffolk times of group identity to see themselves as a distinct minority with the stinks grievances Lake Mead and to assert proudly that form of identity and so you kind of Petco's black power of minority cultural nationalism across the United States Humanities and liberal or more justifiable Grievances and Native Americans did not achieve citizenship on Moss until 1924 when the Indian citizenship act so from the very founding listen 24 you have a group of people who are viewed as essentially aliens or Wards if they say that was the terminology that the United States news just the war with ending terminating the formal treaty and executive order relationships of the United States with the various so that there would be no government together meant relationship for much of the post-war. The federal government seems determined to force Native Americans into the scream of American life and the idea was to set them up with the position job so that they could become mainstream Americans and how Economic Opportunity and it work to the advantage of some Indian people least initially but what often happened was the initial job broke down ended up going on employed and living in ghettos and it's separated people from their family and their languages from the cultural dance ceremony that took place in the reservation it was difficult for lots of families making the Civil Rights Movement group of Native American occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to their plight I remember George capture saying that the landing Alcatraz Island would like the landing of the Marines that you would Jima that there was something that dramatically had changed  Levin who's the incident known as Wounded Knee it begins with the murder of a Lakota man Custer County South Dakota this young man is going to get off very lightly and it wasn't even going to be considered a murderer so the aim people moved into a cuss County and beginning the county official for what they have done things became very heated in the aim people decided to retreat Pine Ridge reservation the small place in Bulloch of Native American history a place called Wounded Knee then they Proclaim themselves in the independence of Lala two nations in Define reinstate  in Clash king bedroom the new it ended in tragedy with some FBI people dying but also and then loaded people dying Latinos are the fastest-growing minority in the United States settlers in New Mexico others are more recent arrivals I have to serve it in Southeast Asia and coming back in body back Willie overtaking mini Mexican-American neighborhood a kind of spirit of civil rights which would I think shape Mexican American more developments in the 1970s among the Chicano Mexican American population begin to see the move toward ethnic nationalism to believe in such efforts as phase of Chavez's work Monday Farm Workers and American southwest and Rodolfo Corky Gonzales Augustus place in Denver Colorado five early 1960s. Travis would be convinced that what Mexican American Mexican immigrants in the United States was some kind of a labor unions in agriculture which would help them to find better add to Define better working conditions for them and their family just began as a traditional Union organizing efforts the Farm Workers in the great grape strike and boycott of the late 1960s but it expanded into one that tried to be a toon do ants celebrate and emphasize Chicano and Mexican cultural and religious Traditions to symbolic presence I think was all more important you need someone to Rally around someone that you think pride in a pride nuts please role model for the role model of willing to challenge the institutions of the cause of justice and equity  please emphasis on culture and Heritage is adopted by many minority groups grandchildren are no 5th generation American and so my granddaughter is roots go back to the 1890s so we talking about over A Century of present my families  not at all unusual in this in this sentence and then the people who came here as children and see no reason why they should be forced to become a simulated in the way the European immigrants thought in the 19th century  the fact that all of these groups Latinos Native Americans and Asians are attempting to forge stronger identities in themselves challenges the long-held idea of the Melting Pot Anna becomes a threat to the idea of America because there are many other Americans who say who are these blacks who are proclaiming their step and who are these white ethnics who want to talk about preserving more of their religious or ethnic hair message this is not what America is about immigrants have been free to come to this country on this condition that they give up everything they brought with them and they become new men and women is an acceptable way of teaching children in the classroom or do they should be forced to learn English as quickly as possible and then move into the mainstream that debate I think has a good deal to do with our ambivalence how to accept the different Multicultural elements of the society today  I became very interested in the comparison of Frank Capra and Francis Ford most Italian filmmakers Capron 1930s Coppola and 1970s what about Capra was his reluctance represent his own Italian story on screen because there were too many questions about Italians in America in the 1930s and so I admire his movies but I also note the struggled to leave his Italian is behind  and how different from that figure is Francis Ford the first 45 minutes of Godfather are about an Italian wedding something that would have been unimaginable for a camper to have done there are what's here's that it's filmed is going to be a public relations disaster for the Italian Community Anthony American movie-going public loves the wedding scene they love the Corleone family and so we can see in the response of the American Film going public to this an enormous transformation in attitudes of Americans to minorities and ethnic groups in their mix the search for and for respect goes beyond ethnic minorities the Gay Liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s not only in terms of the group's political and economic rights but in terms of acceptance and many people who are profoundly for religious and cultural reasons of who's to homosexuality think that's a question somehow or other disregarding the obvious fact that to be different in our culture pretty turn need to be sexually different to be homosexual and a homophobic culture subject you to all kinds of discrimination and 10 minutes self-loathing and self-doubt why in the world anybody would choose that escapes my reason turn on everything that's piety says about homosexuality and I felt perverted in deviant in at normal but at the same time the feelings were so intense that I didn't seem to have any power over not acting on them we have friends who came out and found all-weather possessions out on your front yard I can honestly say I really prefer people to know at this point  although women Constitution 1% of the population hardly a minority many women begin to identify with Menorah groups and Amanda liberation of Their Own put their children and then up to Lyrica Eminem civil rights Answer 1 students who have these ideas and share them with meditation duration but it's discrimination begin to question social justice and equality right here in this organization and some women began to question gender hierarchy within the left at the same time Kennedy organization to help narrow election victory in 1960 and his pay that was a commission on the status of women Ellen what about what the point of the chair at one of her last public rolls before she died in 1964 after Kennedy death bars employers from discriminating on the basis of race religion or national origin but also on the basis of sex  Phil the eagle don't put that up to implement the termination MLB hold all these women working women begin to complain of lower wages exclusion from promotion not getting job discrimination all kinds by the 1970s increasingly more complicated and third challenging forms of discrimination examples age requirement that were there to keep women out when there was no real justification for that labor and civil rights activist decided they needed a civil rights organization like the n-double-acp and they call the National Organization for Women not off before women men were there and they become too liberal branch of the law 2015 right issues of race and sexual harassment child care links up with liver goals of labor and unlimited compare can you 70s from which there is no turning back  in the world in which as many marriages are ending in divorce not knowing that they cannot expect me to penance all the way lies the only thing need this right women begin to enter profession the number for the highest barrier for women even Beyond medicine  in weight women really double bind trying to have to apologize you could say you want to clean up she could run as a woman but it would take you only so far the Cannabis Ruth Hanna McCormick and about 1928 she ran for Congress and she answered the question that every woman candidate up until recently has had to answer in that is are you running as a woman and she Drew herself up and I most certainly am not I'm running as the daughter of Mark Hanna he was in Ohio boy and the wife of the Chicago Tribune McCormick that says everything and that was not refrained until Pat Schroeder ran for president and patton Crescenta steamer to reframe the whole issue and so when she was at are you running as a woman she looked at the reporter and said do I have an option Patricia Schroeder it's a reason we have the Family Medical Group family issues and go to try to be one of the boys at the same time that always say but I am also a woman and so I think it's finished  civil rights feminism a whole range of Liberation movement on the sexual Revolution by the gay and lesbian Rights Movement the emergence of piety which is much Freer and more open than it once was I mean this is part of what liberalism is on people don't like it but it is an idea rests on the bottom using visual of the ability of the individual to live his or her life as he wishes to express his or her views Spanish Traditions very much alive even if you dispute it before he go from there  how do you then move from ending discrimination the most blatant form to creating false and liberalism flounder on that question do you provide special support like affirmative action or is it enough to say while you're free to compete in Marketplace a woman's right to basic principle of the building well it is for some wings of liberalism topper other  and so liberalism come with apart because of differences probably could the things that some Liberals are never even thought about and the Democratic party feels compelled to abandon its earlier anthesis on uniformity and assimilation and become an advocate of the rights of those who want to be different Republican party in contract the aims of an older America the greater uniformity greater moral consent please become the new BattleBots on which much of American politics let's say hiring more black firefighters into what had been an Italian-American or irish-american firehouse those kinds of things might have caused a lot of tension in a time of economic Prosperity when there was enough to go around for everyone but when gag Nation Rising wages and prices eating away at people saving that their investment cause economic insecurity true cause tensions within the liberal Coalition and then finally important was the Vietnam War the cultural conflict between one movement and its supporters who are increasingly suspicious of the United States is role in the world  the like other social Crusades of the 1960s has had a long history but little public support as the degradation of the environment becomes more alarm bells and I only counted it for 4 billion years roughly of just being one more animal in the last fifty or so we've gotten two point where we have changed every square inch of the surface of the planet one way or another degrading dramatically something on the order of Levelland service and changing it to a no longer can give us what it used to give the scale of a human Enterprise much too large to be supported by the natural system on which it depends we are burning or natural capital  some of the infant's for Environmental Protection he's quite personal what year is my child figure it out and then I picked up a newspaper one morning and it said there are 20,000 tons of chemicals three blocks from my home I went to the board of education to ask for Michael to be moved to another public school and the Board of Education said no misses gives these dangerous for your is dangerous for all 407 children who live in this community and we are not about to move all of those children because of one irate with a sickly child looking to blame her and someone else so we organized politically and we did that around the governor who is running for reelection 1978 all 900 families who lives in Love Canal Community has the opportunity to move with their homes being purchased at fair market value but it was a long hard struggle and it was a bunch of for the ordinary people who took on some very extraordinary on government and corporate entities greatest Legacy of the 60s is one of participation  if you get on bus in New York City today is not see your poster up and about saying it will be a public hearing with a balance change stocks will if you want to build a major project you have to write an environmental impact statement you have to go through an um regulatory reviews all of which hall for public comment now we tend to take things for granted and many of us don't really Avail art most updated expectation of direct public participation in decision-making events National level is something that I think is very much for legacy of the 1960s and something that is I think overall very positive The Unfinished nation is it can you do part American history series for more information about this program and a company materials call +1-800-576-2988 or visit us online at w UW intelecom org

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