25.+The+Turbulent+1960s

The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
** See **** United States History II.25 and U.S. History II.26 for more information on the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. **

**See Massachusetts U.S History II.27 for more information on the women's rights movement in the 1960s.**


 * [[image:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG width="80" height="53"]]See United States History II.28 for information on the Presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter**

[|Teaching the Movement 2014: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States] from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Brother Outsider TrailerA movie documenting Bayard Rustin, a Civil Rights March organizer who was also openly gay.

[|Walkout in Crystal City] tells the story of a 1969 student walkout at a high school where an all-White school board was allowed only one Mexican American girl to be a member of the cheerleading squad.

[|Lectures in History: 20th Century Political Activism] by Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2011).

20th Century Social Protest Posters, University of Michigan

**The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom**
[|President Obama Marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington] (August 28, 2013).

[|"Did You Know?" Myths and Facts about the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]

[|An Oral History of the March on Washington]from the Smithsonian.

Click here for a [|collection of resources for teaching the March on Washington.]


 * Freedom Summer**

[|Freedom Summer Sourcebook] from the Wisconsin Historical Society provides primary documents and teaching materials.

The Vietnam War

 * ** See Massachusetts U.S. History II.28 for more information on the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies in the 1960s. **
 * ** See Massachusetts United States History II.20 more on the Vietnam War. **


 * [[image:primary_sources.PNG link="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html#Poster"]][|Political Posters from the United States, Cuba and Vietnam, 1965-1975] from the Sixties Project, University of Virginia **

A [|lesson plan] from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on military advisers in Vietnam.

[|Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam Wa]r. John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, & Brad Austin (eds.). University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
For an overview of the Johnson Presidency, see [|Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society], a Prezi presentation by a high school teacher, Mr. Z.

National Tragedies in the 1960s

 * Walter Cronkite reporting the death of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.


 * [|Walter Cronkite reports the death of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, 1968.]

New York Times article reporting the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.



**[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Gay_flag.svg/200px-Gay_flag.svg.png width="60" height="33"]]The Gay Rights Movement**
[|Constitution of the Mattachine Society of Washington], 1967

Go here for the text of [|A Woman's Organization for the Purpose of Promoting the Integration of the Homosexual into Society,] the mission statement of the Daughters of Bilitis, October 1956

**Stonewall Uprising (June 1969)**

 * See Special Topic Page on the Stonewall Riots**

[|Stonewall Riots: The Beginning of the LGBT Movement]

For more, see [|The Stonewall Riot and Its Aftermath] from Columbia University.

See also, [|The Stonewall Riots of 1969: A Turning Point in the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Liberation]


 * Stonewall Uprising Video**

[|Stonewall Uprising,] is the website that accompanies a video from The American Experience.

[|Go here for the Stonewall Uprising video]

[|Police Records Document Start of Stonewall Uprising]from the New York Times (June 22, 2009).

** Music and the CounterCulture **
[|What's That Sound? Teaching the 1960s through Popular Music] from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

[|LSD Museum or Institute of Illegal Images] in San Francisco contains over 33,000 sheets of blotter paper imprinted with pop culture images and used to transmit doses of LSD