September 23: The Campus Revolt and the New Left, Youth Culture (topic originally scheduled on syllabus for September 18—note change in syllabus-we are one class behind from original schedule of topics)

Note: The viewing of the video Hearts and Minds, originally scheduled for September 23, will be deferred to a new date and time, (probably September 25) to be announced in class and reposted here after Thursday, September 18 class.

 

Read: America Divided, 147-194; on-line reading 

·       Stokely Carmichael , excerpt from interview

 

Recommended

Student Movement

·       Bill Mandel’s testimony before HUAC in Berkeley Mandel testified while five-thousand Berkeley students demonstrated outside --

·       Free Speech Movement  Archives

·       Berkeley Free Speech Movement Archives    

·       Mario Savio’s speech and “End to History                                                                   

·       Berkeley free speech movement reflections

·       Personal Narratives from the 1960s

·       Port Huron Statement—full version

·       Port Huron Statement-short version

·       SNCC as part of the student movement

·       SNCC position paper on VW 

·       Diggers Archives

·       Summer of Love Archives

·       Yippie Manifesto

·       Yippie Writings and Yippie advocates

·       Jerry Rubin speech to the Yippie Convention (real player)

·       Chicago 7 conspiracy trial, with lots of other artifacts, including posters, photos and the surreal trial transcript—also has great links

·       Another Chicago 7 website Under construction, but good material, good links, though many not functional

·       “It Was Like A Weed:” Carl Oglesby on The 1960s Student Movement

·       “Let’s Have a Meeting:” Cathy Wilkerson on SDS Organizing

·       “Bigger Than Anything We Understood:” Cathy Wilkerson On The Political Culture of SDS

·       “It Was All Men Talking:” Cathy Wilkerson on 1960s Campus OrganizingFree Speech Movement Digital Archive

·       Social Protest in the Sixties – by Jo Freeman

·       The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

 

Songs/Music of the 1960s—see sixties sites above as well

·       Country Joe McDonald’s Vietnam War Songs

·       Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War 

·       Motown history

See also   http://www.Motown.com

·       Heat Wave and NoWhere To Run-Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

·       Bob Dylan

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Oxford Town by Bob Dylan

·       Barry McGuire’s Eve of Destruction (1965)

·       Phil Ochs - 60s balladeer

      Love Me, I’m a Liberal

·       Grateful Dead Lyrics

·       MC-5

·       Tom Lehrer

·       Chuck Berry

·       Marvin Gaye

·       Soul Patrol and Civil Rights

·       Sam Cooke

·       Jimi Hendrix

·       Big Brother and the Holding Company

·       A Reasonable interpretation of American Pie by Don McClean

·       San Francisco Rock 1965-1969

·       Grateful Dead Lyrics

·       Grateful Dead [official site] 

·       Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

·         FBI Files on John Lennon-

·       Stax Records, the Incubator of Funk

·       “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution” (Documents)

·       To Dance By TOM ROBBINS (1967)

·       The 60s: Notes of Discord (an interpretation of the role of music in the decade)

·        Conservative Perspectives on Rock Music  

·        When Nixon Met Elvis – exhibit from the National Archives; bizarre=Elvis offers his assistance to the war on drugs and against hippies

 

 

Counterculture

·       Psychedelic Sixties - all you ever wanted to know about the counterculture

·       Diggers Archives

·       Hippies Link

·       Timothy Leary (currently closed, but keep checking)

·       Abbie Hoffman

·       Allen Ginsberg

·       Allen Ginsberg’ selected poetry “Howl”, “America”, “A Supermarket In California”, “To Aunt Rose

·       Summer of Love

·       Haight-Ashbury

·         The Farm, adventures in Community living  -- one of the communes from the 1960s

·         People’s Park