SIXTIES FREEDOM By Madonna Scott
Feb 22, 2016
SIXTIES FREEDOM
ByMadonna Scott
Sixties Freedom
Rosa Parks• December 1, 1955• No more humiliation• Arrested
• City owned bus company boycott• Lasted 381 days
• Supreme Court ruling – segregation unconstitutional
• Later years• Not happy yet
The Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.• Young pastor
• Eloquent speaker
• Bridged races
• Formed Montgomery Improvement Association
• Launched Chicago Freedom Movement
The Freedom Movement
Vietnam war• U.S.feared Communist
takeover of Vietnam• Lyndon B. Johnson
concerned about image
• Requested legislation securing right to vote
• Great Society programs – War on Poverty
• Medicare• Medicaid
The Freedom Movement
Little RockCentral High School• Governor Faubus
• National Guard
• “Little Rock Nine”
• Court Order
• Federal troops to enforce order
The New Left Struggle for
freedom Sit-ins at Berkley
Free speech movement
Fixed up park Reagan had
National Guard fence off the park and guard it
Sit-in at Liberty Bell Support southern
drive for voting rights
Sexual Freedom Sexual pleasure
Communes Birth control pills
Separated sex from reproduction
Erotic revolution “Second wave” of
feminism Women’s liberation
movement Trashed undies
Known as burning their bras
The Rights Revolution Chief Justice Warren
Court revitalized Bill of Rights First Amendment
Freedom of press ruling said had right to critize government
Constitutional right to privacy Referred to as protection against journalistic intrusion By 60’s – meant the ability to conduct private life
without feal of govermental invasion Legal rights of women expanded
No-fault divorce laws Prosecuting marital rape and assalt helped free
women