2
–Paul Kantner
SONG FOR THE DAY: 1. Light My Fire

Daily Comment & Card
1907-1964
RACHEL CARSON
-American writer and marine biologist
-Wrote Silent Spring (1962), a study on dangerous insecticides
-Helped initiate the environmental movement
SONG FOR THE DAY:LIGHT MY FIRE
“If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.”
–Paul Kantner

Daily Comment & Card
1963
BETTY
FRIEDAN
-Author and activist
-Published The Feminine Mystique in
1963, which attacked the belief that a woman’s sole satisfaction comes through homemaking
-Friedan was one of the founders of the National Organization of Women
(NOW), which helped advance women’s rights and causes
“If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.”
–Paul Kantner
SONG FOR THE DAY: BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

1907-1964
Daily Comment & Card
RACHEL CARSON
-American writer and marine biologist
-Wrote Silent Spring (1962), a study on dangerous insecticides
-Helped initiate the environmental movement
1963
BETTY
FRIEDAN
-Author and activist
-Published The Feminine Mystique in
1963, which attacked the belief that a woman’s sole satisfaction comes through homemaking
-Friedan was one of the founders of the National Organization of Women
(NOW), which helped advance women’s rights and causes
“If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.”
–Paul Kantner
SONG FOR THE DAY:LIGHT MY FIRE

-Be able to give examples of major events and influences during the Sixties (for the Civil Rights
Movement, the extension of Civil Rights, the counter culture, and foreign policy)
Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Cesar Chavez,
AIM, The Bay of Bigs invasion, Cuban Missile
Crisis, and the Kent State massacre

THE FIFTIES HAD BEEN ALL ABOUT
GETTING THE THINGS YOU COULDN’T
GET DURING THE WAR…
FAMILY
CARS
HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS
GOOD JOB
MATERIAL WEALTH
DURING THE SIXTIES THE CHILDREN OF THE FIFTIES BABY BOOM
CAME OF AGE. THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE CONFORMITY OF THEIR
PARENTS; THEY PROTESTED THE ASPECTS OF SOCIETY THEY DIDN’T
LIKE; THEY PUSHED TO BE ABLE TO VOTE. IT WAS A TURBULENT
TIME…A TIME OF CHANGE

CIVIL RIGHTS
EXPANDED…
COUNTER-
CULTURE
VIETNAM AND
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
CIVIL
RIGHTSFOR
AFRICAN-
AMERICANS

COUNTER-CULTURE
1970 KENT STATE—NATIONAL
GUARD FIRES ON STUDENTS

CIVIL RIGHTSFOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
SIT IN MOVEMENT BEGINS IN
1960
1967--THURGOOD MARSHALL
BECOMES FIRST AFRICAN-
AMERICAN SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE

CIVIL RIGHTS EXPANDED…
26 TH AMENDMENT GIVES 18 YEAR
OLDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN 1971

VIETNAM AND FOREIGN RELATIONS
BAY OF PIGS INVASION FAILS
IN 1961
1970 KENT STATE—NATIONAL
GUARD FIRES ON STUDENTS

ON A PIECE OF PAPER YOU ARE TO CREATE A
TIMELINE FOR 1960-1970s…
YOU MUST INCLUDE: (AT LEAST_
- 3 POLITICAL EVENTS IN BLUE
- 3 EVENTS INVOLVING VIETNAM IN RED
- 5 CIVIL RIGHTS EVENTS FOR AFRICAN
AMERICANS IN GREEN
- 4 EVENTS FOR EITHER WOMEN, AMERICAN
INDIANS OR MEXICAN-AMERICANS IN ORANGE
- 2 EVENTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE/COUNTERCULTURE
IN PURPLE.