Look at the heading of
your guided research
worksheet.
When you see that
heading on the board it
is your turn to present
the material you found.
After each group
presents I will provide
additional information.
THE 60’S PART 1
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Known as the “Swinging 60’s” because of the way society relaxed its attitude
towards social taboos or rules.
• For example, interracial marriage became more accepted than in the previous
era. The use of drugs was considered a normal part of culture, though still
illegal.
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Pop art was the most popular form of art in the 60’s.
• The idea was to create representations of popular ideas and aspects of the
culture rather than new and unique ideas.
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Andy Worhol (AKA: Prince of Pop) was followed by: Roy Lichtenstein, James
Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg
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The focus of literature in the 60’s was to make sense of the world around them.
Many new styles were developed, but other authors chose to use works from the
past to criticize their circumstances.
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Harper Lee’s work represented this by including aspects of the culture with
several themes that display her view of the world. We’ll see this later in The
Outsiders.
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The biggest issue of Education in the 60’s was how to integrate schools.
• Most districts were divided by location. However, because of the previous era,
most minorities did not live in the same area as the white majority.
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Other major events included the first televised Presidential Debates, the Cuban
Missile Crisis, the JFK Assassination, MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech, the rise of
the second wave of feminism.
Pocket sized radio transmitters were invented making radio sales soar.
The advent of color television made televisions more popular. As a result theatres
and cinema theatres saw a decrease in use, and had to adapt to attract
customers.
The first televised debate occurred in the 60’s and resulted in the election of the
youngest president to date, John. F. Kennedy. Since then analysts have been
studying the impact of television and radio on the culture.
Some of the greatest moments in sports that occurred in the 1960’s included the
first woman competing in the Boston marathon, and the establishment of the first
nationally recognized women’s rowing team. Additionally the first SuperBowl was
held in the sixties.
This era saw the very first SuperBowl, and also a large increase in female
participation in competitive sports.
THE 60’S PART 2
The 1960's automobiles belonged to a distinct decade of automobile history with the
advent of economy, muscle and pony cars.
John Z. DeLorean and the Pontiac GTO are commonly credited with creating the first
muscle car. The creation of the muscle car coincided with the growth of the
national highway system and the increase in gasoline availability.
In the 1960's the average new car cost about $2,752. This price, while still an
extremely high value for that period, was affordable for most people.
1966 Pontiac GTO Coupe
“Muscle”
1964 Oldsmobile
“Economy”
1963 Chevrolet Corvair Testudo
“Pony”
Fashion Fads of the early 60’s included swing dresses and Beatle boots. The late
60’s fashion consisted of trends like tie-dye, hippies, and peace signs, but also
granny glasses, and mini skirts (which were unheard of and would have been
seen as obscene or provocative until the late 60’s).
Hairstyles such as afros and duck cuts became popular as well. The acceptance of
afros into the culture came as a result of growing support for integration.
1960’s Motown records was the first production studio to widely produce the work of
African American artists. Artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles rose to fame as
foreign artists.
In fact, the Beatles are the most renown artists of what was known as “The British
Invasion”, the pinnacle of 1960’s era music.
OKLAHOMA
The first land run occurred in Oklahoma 1889, in which the government basically
gave “unclaimed” land to settlers. Some issues occurred, such as Sooners
(people who entered the territory before the run officially began). This was
resolved by a law stating that anyone caught in the territory before the official
start of the land run would be considered a trespasser and shot.
African-Americans could not go to a restaurants downtown, to go to a fast food place
and be able to go inside and order food. On Aug. 19, 1958, Ms. Luper and 14
young people went downtown to a place called Katz drugstore and that’s what
began the sit-in movement.
Clara Luper was an activist who helped organize the Katz Sit-in. Additionally she was
the first African American student in The University of Oklahoma’s graduate
history program.
The California, Texas, the Santa Fe Road were all developed first as settlement trails.
They were developed to make trade and travel easier.
In the early 1830’s, the federal government forced Native Americans to leave their
homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian
territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey
is known as the Trail of Tears.
The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw Indian words which translate as "red
people“.
Scissortail FlyCatcher
Wild Flower:
Indian Paintbrush
White Bass
Collared Lizard
Rose Rock
Flower:
Oklahoma Rose
Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
In the 1930’s the Dust Bowl began. Dust storms were the result of drought and land
that had been overused.
The most famous novel about the plight of the Dust Bowl and its effects is John
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
GANGS
A gang is defined as a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who
gather together for social reasons.
Gangs that emerged in the 60s include the Latin Kings, Surenos, Nutenos, Crips, and
Bloods. All of these gangs came from California except for the Latin Kings who
came from Chicago.
The gangs of the 1960’s became increasingly territorial, and were commonly
politically and socially active. They participated in protests and rallies in support
of social change.
Typically urban areas have the most gang activity.
Gang members usually come from the lower class of the social and economic
hierarchy, but it is not exclusive of the lower-middle class.
In the 1960’s the Italian Mafia was falling from its prime. Most gang members were
black or Hispanic in ethnicity.
On May 3, 1950, the Senate established a five-member Special Committee to
Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. This committee was also
known as the Kefauver Crime Committee, after its chairman Estes Kefauver.
The US Attorney Generals from the 60’s included: William Pierce Rogers, 63rd
Attorney General, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, 64th Attorney General,
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 65th Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, 66th
Attorney General, and John Newton Mitchell, 67th Attorney General.
The Italian Mafia also goes by Mob or Mafioso.
S. E. HINTON
Susan Eloise Hinton was born on the 22nd of July 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
She began writing The Outsiders in her teens . So taking inspiration from real life and
events that had happened in her life she created a story of two gangs and their
rivalry.
The Outsiders was originally published in 1967 under this abbreviated version of her
name because her narrator was a boy, and her publishers suggested that she
publish under the name of S. E. Hinton; they feared their readers wouldn't respect
a "macho" story written by a woman.
This story deals with issues that are very close to the hearts of teens, whether in the
1960s when this book was written or today. The controversy surrounding the
book is due mostly to the many un-favored elements of society, or taboos, which
were included in the book.
After graduating from Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton attended
the University of Tulsa where she earned a degree in education in 1970.
Hinton married David Inhofe in 1970, just before the publishing of her second book,
which he helped her write by forcing her to write two pages a day, otherwise they
wouldn’t go out that night.
Below are three of her other published novels, which continue the themes expressed
in the Outsiders in a more direct manner.
SOURCES
Part 1
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/books/05masl.html?_r=0
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http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm
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https://macahe.wordpress.com/5-literature/
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https://books.google.com/books?id=U_HSk9YheBYC&pg=PA145&hl=en#v=onep
age&q&f=false
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http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/index.html
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http://espn.go.com/abcsports/wwos/milestones/1960s.html
Part 2
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http://www.anythingaboutcars.com/1960s-cars.html
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http://people.howstuffworks.com/8-groovy-fads-of-the-1960s7.htm
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https://prezi.com/xoewl1aiipfx/fads-and-fashions-during-the-50s-and-60s/
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https://www.motownmuseum.org/story/motown/
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http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60smusic.html
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http://www.history.com/topics/1960s
Oklahoma
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-oklahoma-land-rush-begins
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http://kfor.com/2014/02/17/looking-back-at-the-katz-drugstore-sit-in/
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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Clara-Luper
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http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CA012&topic=Trans
portation
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http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
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http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/oklahoma/state-nameorigin/origin-oklahoma
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http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/states/united-states/oklahoma
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http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/oklahoma/
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http://libguides.tccd.edu/c.php?g=240523&p=1599533
Gangs
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gang
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http://www.answers.com/Q/Gangs_of_the_60s
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http://people.howstuffworks.com/street-gang1.htm
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http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Kefauver_Crime_Committee_Lau
nched.htm
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http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/tp/AG_1960_1980.htm
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http://americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_272.html
S. E. Hinton
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http://www.famousauthors.org/s-e-hinton
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http://www.mrcoward.com/slcusd/sehi.html
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http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/the-outsiders/se-hinton-biography