Days of Hope Days of Rage Panthers Leftists and Hippies in the 1960s I The Sixties protest movements two phases 1 Hope reformist positive a Want to fix the broken parts of America b Still believe in the American Dream c Similar to the New Deal or the Progressive movement 2 Rage bitter cynical sometimes violent a Things pushed for in the hope phase aren t being carried out US troops still in Vietnam b Believe things need to be torn down and rebuilt II Civil Rights From We Shall Overcome to Black Power 1 Starts out tame and non radical a b legal phase Brown v Board etc nonviolent protest phase 2 The turn towards radicalism born of frustration and white violence a Stokely Carmichael becomes the leader of SNCC kicks out whites renounces nonviolence and adopts black power ideals becomes the Black Panthers b Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC Black Panthers III The New Left 1 College oriented reform group very optimistic 2 Protests at democratic convention 3 Begins bombing ROTC buildings 4 New Left critiques of American society culture politics a Racism poverty inauthentic suburbia b The Establishment 1 i Government military corporations universities all working together to get and keep power 1 The falseness of liberalism ii The unity of all problems 1 Vietnam War the ultimate symbol and expression of The Establishment s corruption 5 Protesting Vietnam a Marches teach ins etc b Fighting the Draft 6 The turn towards radicalism a Democratic Convention Chicago 1968 i Students for a Democratic Society SDS petition gov t hold sit ins burn draft cards b The Weathermen 1969 i Violent revolutionary at least rhetorically ii Become communists plant bombs in gov t buildings adopt Marxism iii Disappeared in the early 1970s like the Black IV Panthers The Counterculture and the Hippies 1 Not the same as the New Left 2 Hippies generally white middle class college kids who are disillusioned by American society so fight it by not being a part of it a Center of hippie dom San Francisco b Timothy Leary Johnny Appleseed of Acid 3 Protested corrupt America by refusing to take part dropping out a b life as politics dress drugs sex as protest Communes hippie utopias 2 c Yippies cynical version of hippies fighting the system through mockery Abbie Hoffman ii 3
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