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The New Left and the Counterculture: Roots

The New Left and the Counterculture: Roots. 1950s Conformity McCarthyism ‘Multiversities’ ‘The New left sprang, a pre-destined pissed-off child, from Elvis’ gyrating pelvis.’ [Jerry Rubin] Beats, ‘madness’, R.D. Laing Civil Rights. Students for a Democratic Society.

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The New Left and the Counterculture: Roots

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  1. The New Left and the Counterculture: Roots • 1950s Conformity • McCarthyism • ‘Multiversities’ • ‘The New left sprang, a pre-destined pissed-off child, from Elvis’ gyrating pelvis.’ [Jerry Rubin] • Beats, ‘madness’, R.D. Laing • Civil Rights

  2. Students for a Democratic Society • By 1968 over 50% popn under 25 • 1970 32% 18-24 yea-olds in College • 1961 SDS founded • 1962 Port Huron Statement • 1963 ‘America and the New Era’

  3. Berkeley,1964 • 27,000 students • Clark Kerr, ‘The Uses of the University’ (1963) • Oct 1964 Mario Savio (pictured left)

  4. Free Speech Movement • 1964 FSM • Dec 1964 Occupy Sproul Hall • Spreads to other campuses

  5. Prof. Timothy Leary • ‘Tune in, turn on, drop out’ • 1963 dismissed from Harvard • 1966 ‘League for Spiritual Discovery’

  6. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters • ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1962) • Commune at LaHonda, Ca. • Neal Cassady

  7. Acid Tests • Nov 1965 First at La Honda • 1966 20,000 attended an acid test in San Francisco • 1966 LSD became illegal

  8. Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll • 1960 The Pill • College life • Sex as rebellion • Sex and male oppression • Sex and psychedelia

  9. Underground Press

  10. The Summer of Love

  11. Abbie Hoffman (left), Jerry Rubin and the ‘Yippies’ (1968)

  12. Communes

  13. Endgame • Violence and self-indulgence • Drugs • Altamont • Manson murders

  14. Easy Rider (1969)

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