The Sixties
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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MACROANALYSIS
- "Age of youth"
- "Baby Boom" children (50's) = teenagers, young adults
- Conservative 50's: NO MORE!
- No more tradition, wanted CHANGE
- ^ changed culture 180
ART
- Influenced by:
- Modern times
- Future
- Space
- Unknown
ARCHITECTURE
- Refinement of Modernism
- Streamlined contemporary look
LITERATURE
- Politics and social issues
- Segregation: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Feminism: Maya Angelou
EDUCATION
- Campuses: debates and protests
- ^ young adults, baby boomers, selective service and voting age
- "Equality of Education Opportunity"
- ^ Started forced integration and bussing (70's)
- "Basic thinking skills" (wrong in 50's)
FADS
- CA surfers: skateboarders
- Barbie Dolls
- G.I. Joe
- Slot cars
FASHION (EARLY)
- Crew cuts
- Plaid, button down shirts
- Bouffant hairstyles
- Mid knee length dresses
FASHION (MID)
- Longer, wider, beards, mustaches
- Renaissance: bright colors, double-breasted sports jackets
- Polyester pants suits with Nehru jackets, turtlenecks
- Very short, or very long and lanky
- Miniskirts, hot pants, go-go boots, revealing
FASHION (END)
- Wide ties, patterns on patterns
- Peasant skirts, granny dresses, chunky shoes
- Unisex clothes: bell bottomed jeans, love beads, embellished t-shirts
HISTORICAL EVENTS
- Civil Rights Movement: MLK, Malcolm X, Black Panther Party
- Hispanic Americans x3, violent protest from American Indians (50%, 2/3)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964, "glass ceiling", abortion and artificial insemination
- Space Race: Soviets, Americans
- Environmental movement begins
MUSIC
- EARLY: African Americans, women, soul and blues
- Early: Elvis, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Aretha Franklin
- Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix
- Bob Dylan (folk), The Beach Boys (teens), The Beatles
MUSIC (MID)
- Drugs= harsh acid rock
- Mellow psychedelic rock
- Woodstock
- Later: electro- acoustic
MEDIA
- Broadway's
- Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn
- Disney: 101 Dalmatians, Pinocchio
- James Bond
MEDIA CONT.
- Radio: AM to FM
- TV: Flintstones, Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Andy Griffith Show, The Addams Family
- Star Trek
SPORTS
- Three Olympic Games
- American = successful
- Professional sports soared
- Exceeded race barriers
TRANSPORTATION
- Advancing satellites: GPS navigation
- Early: continued from 50's
- Power steering, power windows
- High performance cars
- Chevy Camaro and Corvette Sting Ray, Ford Shelby Mustang
WAR
- Fidel Castro: Cuba: Communist X USA
- .. Castro seize American Property, Bay of Pigs:
- US invades Cuba, threats on US by Soviets
- Kennedy: Camelot: assassinated -- Lyndon B. Johnson x 2
- Communist North vs. South Vietnam
DRUGS
- LSD
- Marijuana
- Magic Mushrooms
ECONOMY
- Big Business
- Big Government
- Big Labor
- Unions, international competition
- Inflation
DEMOGRAPHICS
- Population 177,830,000 | Unemployment 3,852,000
- National Debt 286.3 Billion | Average Salary $4,743
- Teacher's Salary $5,174 | Minimum Wage $1.00
- Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
- Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
