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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties, 1960 - 1968

  • Focus on the Kennedy image. Compare the vision of Camelot with the historical realities of Kennedys performance as president and controversies over his private behavior and character.

  • Use Martin Luther King Jr.s life and work to explain the principles of the nonviolent civil rights movement. Perhaps show how King came under assault from some whites and blacks during his lifetime for being either too militant or not militant enough.

  • Discuss the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Consider why it so divided American society.

  • Examine the cultural rebellions of the 1960s in relation to traditional American values like distrust of authority and individualism. Examine the sexual revolution and the changes in the family as they impacted broader issues of public authority and the role of institutions like the school and church.

  • Conduct a class debate over the following topics: e.g., U.S. Actions in Vietnam Are Justified and Americas Youth Must Lead a New Revolution; primary source readings will come from the following book: Opposing Viewpoints in American History Volume II: From Reconstruction to the Present, San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Another good source of debate topics is Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle, Taking Sides Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Volume II: Reconstruction to the Present, Connecticut: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

  • Show students the following videos: The Century Americas Time (ABC Video in association with The History Channel), Volume IV: 1960-1964: Poisoned Dreams: President John Kennedy balances the explosive Cuban missile crisis while suppressing clashes between the races over equal rights at home. Kennedy emerges as the preeminent global power broker, but his assassination leaves an indelible wound on the American psyche. Volume IV: 1965-1970: Unpinned: With no end in sight to the Vietnam War, the radical counterculture erupts in violent protest. Political and cultural norms are challenged through music, literature and style, reflecting the countrys most turbulent era during the centurys second half.

  • Have the students read Daniel Bells The End of Ideology in the West (1960) in David A. Hollinger and Charles Cappers (Editors) The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II 1865 to the Present, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Have the students read Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963) and Malcolm Xs The Ballot or the Bullet (1964) in David A. Hollinger and Charles Cappers (Editors) The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II 1865 to the Present, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Have the students read Betty Friedans Selection from The Feminine Mystique (1963) in David A. Hollinger and Charles Cappers (Editors) The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II 1865 to the Present, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Have the students watch the following movies Malcolm X, JFK, Nixon, Thirteen Days, and All the Presidents Men.



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