The New Left and the Youth Culture

The New Left

        Youth – ˝ under 30

        Colleges and universities

        Defined

                Middle class

                Red diaper babies

                Marxism

                Civil Rights & Minorities

                Labor

        Students for a Democratic Society

                Tom Hayden

                Port Huron Statement

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

        “People’s park”

Weathermen

Anti-War Movement

        ROTC

        Draft

        Kent State University

New Feminism

        Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

        Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII

        National Organization for Women, 1966

Counterculture

        Sex, drugs, rock and roll

        Hippie

        Beatles