D awn of a golden age The Great Society During his presidential campaign in 1960 John F Kennedy had promised the New Frontier a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States ID: 227772
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The 1960s
D
awn
of a golden
age?Slide2
The Great Society
During
his presidential campaign in 1960, John F. Kennedy had promised
the “New Frontier”. a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States. Slide3
The Great Society
President
Lyndon B. Johnson
declared that he would make the United States into a “Great Society” in which poverty and racial injustice had no place. He developed a set of programs that would give poor people “a hand up, not a handout.”
Medicare
and Medicaid, which helped elderly and low-income people pay for health care;
Head
Start, which prepared young children for school
;
Job
Corps that trained unskilled workers for jobs in the deindustrializing economy. Slide4
The War in Vietnam
In
1964, Congress authorized the president to take “all necessary measures” to protect American soldiers and their allies from the communist Viet Cong. Within days, the draft began
.Slide5
The War in Vietnam
The war
in Vietnam became the government’s top priority. There was simply not enough money to pay for the War on Poverty and the war in Vietnam
.Slide6
The War in Vietnam
The war divided
the nation.
Some young people took to the streets in protest, while others fled to Canada to avoid the draft. Meanwhile, many of their parents and peers formed a “silent majority” in support of the war.Slide7
The Fight for Civil Rights
The
struggle for civil rights
defined the ‘60s Their movement spread: The protesters drew the nation’s attention to the injustice, brutality and capriciousness that characterized Jim Crow. Slide8
1964
The Civil Rights ActSlide9
The Fight for Civil Rights
1964
,
President Johnson pushed a Civil Rights Act through Congressprohibited discrimination in public places,
promised equal opportunities
in the workplace to all. Slide10
The Fight for Civil Rights
1965 the
Voting Rights Act
eliminated poll taxes, literacy requirements and other tools that southern whites had traditionally used to keep blacks from voting.Slide11
The Fight for Civil Rights
But
these laws did not solve the problems facing African
Americans:Did not eliminate racism or poverty
Did
not improve the conditions in many black urban neighborhoods.
Many
black leaders began to rethink their goals, and some embraced a more militant ideology of separatism and self-defense.Slide12
The Radical '60s
Student
activists grew more radical
.took over college campusesorganized
massive antiwar
demonstrations
occupied
parks and other public places.
Some
even made bombs and set campus buildings on fire. Slide13
The Radical '60s
Young
women
celebrated the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act and joined the moderate National Organization for Women were also increasingly annoyed with the slow progress of reform. They too became more militant.Slide14
The Radical '60s
The
counterculture also
seemed to grow more outlandish as the decade wore on. “H
ippies
” grew their hair long and practiced “free love.” Some moved to communes, away from the turbulence that had come to define everyday life in the 1960s.Slide15
The Death of the 1960s
The
optimistic ‘60s went sour in 1968
.Slide16
The Death of the 1960s
Brutal
North Vietnamese
Tet Offensive convinced many people that the Vietnam War would be impossible to win.Furious antiwar protestors took over universities in New York, Paris
and
Berlin
.
The
urban riots that had erupted across the country every summer since 1964 continued and intensified
.Slide17
The Death of the 1960s
Martin
Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, the two most visible
figures in American politics, were assassinated. Slide18
The Death of the
1960s
Shreds
of the hopeful ‘60s remained. Summer of 1969 - Woodstock
more
than 400,000 young people trooped to the
music
festival in upstate
New
York,
a
harmonious three days
seemed
to represent the best of the peace-and-love generation
.Slide19
The Death of the 1960s
The
era’s legacy remains
mixedempowerment and polarizationresentment
and
liberationSlide20
Sources
“The 1960s.” 2013.
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“Lyndon B. Johnson.” 2013.
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/history/
vietnam
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-war-
protest.jpgSlide21
The Outsiders
What
do you think were some of the issues teenagers faced in the 1960s?Slide22
The Outsiders
Do
you think these are issues that teenagers still face today?Slide23
The Outsiders
What do you think “The Outsiders” means?
What
is an “outsider”?Slide24
The Outsiders
What
do you think a “coming-of-age” novel means?Slide25
S. E Hinton
The OutsidersSlide26
Dear Reader,
It is very difficult for me to write about myself, and especially
The Outsiders
, which was written at a horrendous time in my life, was published by a series of mind-boggling synchronicities, and has gone further than any author dared dream. But I’ll give it a shot. Slide27
I
wrote
The Outsiders
when I was sixteen years old. Actually I began it when I was fifteen, as a short story about a boy who as beaten up on his way home from the movies. But I didn’t just write The Outsiders, I lived it. Looking back, I realize how important it was to me to have another life at that time. To be someone else. To deal with the problems I had to face, and write my way to some sort of understanding and coping. This is all in hindsight. At the time, I was mad about the social situation in my high school. I desperately wanted something to read that dealt realistically with teen-age life. Slide28
I
knew I was going to be a writer. I love to write. I began in grade school, because I loved to read, and liked the idea of making stories happen the way I wanted them to. By the time I was in high school I had been practicing for years. So I was both elated and not surprised when I received my publishing contract on the day I graduated from high school.
Slide29
Fans
. I receive letters from every state, from dozens of foreign countries. From twelve-year-olds and forty-year-olds. From convicts and policemen, teachers, social workers, and of course, kids. Kids who are living like those in
The Outsiders
. Kids who can’t imagine living lives like those in The Outsiders. Kids who read all the time. Ones who never before finished a book. Slide30
The
letters saying “I loved the book” are good, the ones that say “I never liked to read before, and now I read all them” are better, but the ones that say “
The Outsiders
changed my life” and “I read it fifteen years ago and I realize how much it has influenced my life choices” frankly scare me. Who am I to change anyone’s life? I guess the best reply is “It’s the book, not the author” and “It’s the message, not the messenger.” A lot of the time I feel that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was chosen to write it. It’s certainly done more good than anything I could accomplish on a personal level. Slide31
If
this sounds like I am overwhelmed by the decades of incredible response to what began as a short story I started when I was fifteen years old, well, I guess that’s the truth.
Stay
Gold.S.E. HintonTaken from the Author’s Foreword in The Outsiders Speak Platinum Edition, published by Penguin Group (1995)Slide32
Allusions and Terminology
Paul Newman: actor, famous from the 50s; died in 2008
Digs: likes; loves; admires
Madras shirt: plaid cotton front-button shirt made in India, popular during the 50s and 60sTwo-bits: say; input; opinionWill Rogers: famous humorist form the early 1900s
Hacked off: mad; angrySlide33
Allusions and Terminology
The cooler: jail
Blade: switchblade; pocket knife
Nightly Double: two moveis featured together at the drive-in movie theater for the price of one admissionBoozed up: drunkBroad: woman; girl; girlfriend
Mustangs/
Corvairs
: cars that were popular with the younger crowd during the 60s.Slide34
Allusions and Terminology
Great Expectations
: a novel by Charles Dickens
Pip: the main character from Great ExpectationsHood: hoodlum; gang-banger; bad-guy; trouble-makerSavvy: understandSlide35
Idioms and Expressions
Lone it: did it alone
Happy-go-lucky: carefree; easy going; easy to get along with
Use my head: think carefully about the consequences of my actionsScared of his own shadow: unreasonably afraid of most everythingSlide36
Idioms and Expressions
Like a bump on a log: without reacting; showing no action
For Pete’s sake: equivalent to for goodness sake, or for crying out loud; used to express annoyance or surprise
Bleedin’ like a stuck pig: bleeding heavily, as though stabbedSlide37
Idioms and Expressions
Lift a hubcap: steal a hubcap, a practice that was common among troublemakers in the 50s
Upside-down and backwards: thoroughly; from all angles; in every way
To save his life: as if it were a matter of life or deathSlide38
Idioms and Expressions
By your lonesome: on your own; alone
No,
siree, Bub: absolutely notTakes up: sticks up; protectsTwo-timin
’: going out with two people during the same period behind the back of one or both people
Marked lousy: branded with the reputation of being someone bad or one to stay away from