Protests in the 1960’s Julius Caesar Acting 3 The Antiwar Movement of the 1960’s Info About Antiwar Protests http://library.thinkquest. org/27942/indexf.htm This site includes pictures, a timeline, and a brief history of the antiwar protests. Famous Anti War Quotes and Sayings Make love, not war The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B Johnson Top 10 Most Famous Protest Songs 10. The Birds – Turn! Turn! Turn! 9. Bob Dylan- Blowin’ in the Wind 8. Donovan- The Universal Soldier 7. Sam Cooke- Change is Gonna Come 6. Phil Ochs- I Aint Marching Anymore 5. Mick Softley- The War Drags On 4. Joe Mcdonald -I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag 3. Joan Baez- With God on Our Side 2. Bob Dylan- Master of Wars 1. John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance To Hear the Songs: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-protest-songs-from-the-1960s.php The Chicago Riots 1968 The 1968 Democratic National Convention had a significant amount of protest activity. In 1967, protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days, protesters and police battled for control of the streets of Chicago, whilst the US Democratic Party met at the convention. Given the atmosphere in the International Amphitheater, one would not think it possible that a major conflict between Chicago police and protesters was taking place just a few miles away. Confrontation in the streets, however, had a greater impact than the seating of racially mixed delegates from southern states, credential and platform battles, and even the presidential nomination. -Wikipedia.org Stonewall Protests 1967 The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world. University Of Berkeley Protests http://sunsite.berkeley.e du/calhistory/60s.html On this day hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregated for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thirty-one students were arrested – and the Free Speech Movement was born. Vietnam War Protests Work Cited Picture, slide 2: http://www.boomerslife.org/protests_rally_iran_neda_agha_soltan.htm Picture, slide 4: http://www.andremauricepress.com/amp-blog/2011/1/17/remembering-dr-martinluther-king-jr-beyond-vietnam.html Picture, slide 5: http://sophrosyne.radical.r30.net/wordpress/?p=5600 Picture and paragraph, slide 7: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/332353_the-worst-riots-in-americanhistory and http://thumbsforhire.co.uk/?p=1328 Picture, Slide 9: http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/amongfriends/2008/12/20/25/ Picture 2, Slide 9: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0207.htm Picture 3, Slide 9: http://newspundit.net/kerrysexscandal.html Picture 4, Slide 9: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/vietnam-war-protest-1967