Lecture 2 英美国家概况 教学课件.pptVIP

1960s Civil Rights Movement hit high gear 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled “separate but equal” practice in schools unconstitutional 1955, Montgomery bus boycott Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. The 1960s: the watershed Counterculture Alternative lifestyle, music, drug, communitarian experiments, unconventional appearance “Well-educated, middle-class young whites alienated by the Vietnam war, racism, political and parental demand, a mentality that equated the good life with material goods.” –American: A Narrative History, p.1272 Flower children 1960s “Turn on, tune in, drop out” “Turn on meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. ... Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. Tune in meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. Drop Out meant self-reliance, a discovery of ones singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. ”--Wiki 1960s: the Watershed The Woodstock Festival of 1969: an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture Bethel, NY; Aug 15-18, 1969 500,000 people attended A landmark cultural event A festival that defined the generation Woodstock Driving my Blatz Beer truck to the festival. Hours later, this road was closed to traffic. Photo: Jim Thoms Woodstock My friend Tony and I slept in our stalled car along 17B on Friday night. We started to walk to the site at 6 a.m. 17B was a dormitory parking lot. Woodstock Woodstock Woodstock There were no cell phones in those days. This was the message board. People left messages there for their friends. Photo: Ilene Levine Woodstock Significance “People…are finally getting together.” 1970s Increas