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Reading 8.12
Youth Culture of the 1960s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | Members of the large generation born between 1945 and 1960 that profoundly affected the nation’s social institutions and economic life in the last half of the 20th century. |
| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | New Left student organization formed in 1962 that issued the Port Huron Statement, which called for university decisions to be made through participatory democracy. |
| Port Huron Statement | Document issued by the Students for a Democratic Society, which called for university decisions to be made through participatory democracy. |
| New Left | Liberal political movement of the 1960s and 1970s that consisted of activists and intellectuals who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil rights, environmentalism and feminism. |
| Free Speech Movement | Student led push for a greater voice in university decisions and the end of university restrictions on students’ political activities, which started at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Columbia University Sit-Ins | Peaceful protest against racial discrimination on the campus of Columbia University in 1968 that was violently ended by police after nearly a week. |
| Chicago Democratic Convention | Protest of a Democratic Party meeting in 1968 by peaceful and radical antiwar protestors, anarchists and Yippies that was violently ended by the police. |
| Yippies | Members of the Youth International Party, which was a radical and counterculture revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and antiwar movements of the 1960s. |
| Weather Underground | Radical offshoot of SDS that embraced violence and vandalism tactics such as bombings to attack “the system,” which led many Americans to discredit the idealism of the New Left. |
| Counterculture | Way of life in contradiction with the prevailing social norms, such as the hippies of the 1960s who often opposed the Vietnam War and embraced rebellious styles of dress, music and drug use. |
| Hippies/Flower Children | Members of the counterculture movement of the 1960s who often opposed the Vietnam War and embraced rebellious styles of dress, music, sexual relations and drug use. |
| Folk Music | Genre of music focused on telling the story of everyday life, which experienced a revival in the 1960s and popularized as part of the counterculture movement by artists such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. |
| Rock Music | Genre of music that blended African American rhythm and blues with White country music and was popularized as part of the counterculture movement of the 1960s by artists such as Jimi Hendrix. |
| Woodstock | Massive music festival in upper New York State in 1969 that reflected the zenith of counterculture with performances by Janis Joplin, The Who and Jimmi Hendrix. |
| Alfred Kinsey | Biologist whose pioneering surveys of American sexual practices indicated that premarital sex, marital infidelity and homosexuality were more common than anyone suspected. |
| Sexual Revolution | Changing attitudes toward sexual practices and behaviors during the 1960s that challenged more traditional social norms. |
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