Slide 1:The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton 1967

Slide 2:1950s

Conservative period Post-WWII Good economy Eisenhower “I Love Lucy” “Father Knows Best” “The Honeymooners” “Ozzy and Harriet” “Leave It to Beaver”

Slide 3:1960s

JFK President 1960-1963: Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, NASA, assassinated LBJ President 1963-1968: Civil Rights Act MLK, Jr. & Malcolm X: civil rights movement 1969: Moon, Woodstock Counter-culture, cultural revolution Beat poets Rock n’ roll Rebel cinema Hippies, psychedelic Free speech, Chicano rights, antiwar movement, sexual revolution

Slide 4:S. E. Hinton

Oklahoma 1948-today 16 years old when wrote The Outsiders Father died of cancer early Friend was beaten up in school fight Two cliques at school, Greasers and Socs

Slide 5:Greasers v. Socials (Socs)

GREASERS Working class poor East side Community menace Elvis T-shirts and jeans No car, T-Bird Long, greased hair SOCS Wealthy West side Community trust Beatles Madras shirts/jackets Mustangs Semi-Beatles haircuts

Slide 6:Greasers

Slide 7:Greasers

Hoodlums, hoods, juvenile delinquents, JDs Smoke, weed-fiend, cancer stick Heaters = guns Fuzz = police

Slide 8:Grease, American Graffiti, “Happy Days”

1972 1973 1974

Slide 9:Socs

Slide 10:Socs

Slide 11:Madras Clothing

Lightweight cotton fabric with patterned texture, ideal for summer Popular in 1960s

Slide 12:Cars

Chevrolet Corvair, 1960-1969 (1962) Ford Mustang, 1964-today (1964) Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, 1963-1967 (1964) Ford Thunderbird, 1955-2005 (1960) Socs Socs Cherry Valance Buck Merril

Slide 13:Elvis Presley

Musician, actor 1935-1977 1956, hips The King “Jailhouse Rock” “Hound Dog” “Heartbreak Hotel” Cheesy musical movies

Slide 14:The Beatles

Pop rock 1960-1970 British Ed Sullivan Show 1964 “She Loves You” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” “Yesterday”

Slide 15:Hank Williams

Honky tonk musician 1923-1953 Grand Ole Opry “Hey Good Lookin’” Substance abuse

Slide 16:Will Rogers

Actor, cowboy, comedian 1879-1935 Old cowboy movies Oklahoman

Slide 17:“Perry Mason”

TV show 1957-1966 Lawyer who defends clients wrongly accused of murder

Slide 18:Paul Newman

Actor, rebel, handsome The Hustler (1961) Hud (1963)

Slide 19:Beach Party Movies

Popular movie genre Early-mid 1960s Teen audience Romance, music Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Elvis

Slide 20:Drive-In Theaters

Peaked in late 1950s and early 1960s, especially in rural areas

Slide 21:Drag Races & Rodeos

Slide 22:DX Gas, Dairy Queen, Tastee Freez

Slide 23:1960s Consumer Products

Slide 24:Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell 1936 book 1939 film Bestseller American Civil War and Reconstruction Gallant Southern gentlemen and belles

Slide 25:The Carpetbaggers

Harold Robbins 1961 book 1964 film Bestseller Movie industry, airplane industry, Howard Hughes

Slide 26:Great Expectations

Charles Dickens 1861 British classic story of Pip, an orphan, who grows from a youth to adulthood

Slide 27:Jack London

Author, journalist The Call of the Wild (1903) White Fang (1906) Survival, extreme environments, socialism

Slide 28:Robert Frost

Poet 1874-1963 Rural New England “The Road Not Taken” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Slide 29:“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.