https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2 Made with big dreams en-us 2017-12-08 13:07:31 UTC 2023-05-17 07:03:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214465225 The Berkeley protests were eventsat the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley, California, in the 1960s. Many of these protests were a small part of the larger Free Speech Movement which had national implications and constituted the onset of the counterculture era. These protests were headed under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. Their movements were 
Free Speech Movement,  Anti-War Movement, Women's Rights]]> 2017-12-08 13:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214465225 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214465737 A student activist movement in the that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. By 1969 the organization had split into several factions, the most notorious of which was Weatherman, or the Weather Underground, which employed terrorist tactics in its activities]]> 2017-12-08 13:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214465737 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466092 Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime.]]> 2017-12-08 13:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466092 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466416 Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia. In its immediate aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country.]]> 2017-12-08 13:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466416 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466590 The Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972, when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents.]]> 2017-12-08 13:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214466590 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214467062 On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized.After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later.]]> 2017-12-08 13:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214467062 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214470123 The student-administration efforts had so far not produced the desired results of increased Black enrollment. In addition to the administration lacking in urgency, they misrepresented the demand of having 11% Black students in the incoming class as a racial quota system and undermined student power. This act of resistance became known as the 1968 Black walkout.]]> 2017-12-08 13:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214470123 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214471001 The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the attacks, news coverage of the massive offensive shocked the American public and eroded support for the war effort. ]]> 2017-12-08 13:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214471001 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214471775 On this day in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered.

]]> 2017-12-08 13:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214471775 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214472451 The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists, educators, and others in the Western world who campaigned for social change and for a broad range of reforms on issues such as civil rights, gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs,[2] in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class.]]> 2017-12-08 13:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214472451 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214473901 Demonstrators including radicals, liberals, black nationalists, hippies, professors, women’s groups, and war veterans march on the Pentagon. The rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial started peacefully, though Dr. Benjamin Spock—baby specialist, author, and outspoken critic of the war—did call President Johnson “the enemy.” After the rally, the demonstrators, many waving the red, blue, and gold flag of the Viet Cong, began marching toward the Pentagon. 

]]> 2017-12-08 13:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214473901 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214474815 The trial of the “Chicago Seven” begins before Judge Julius Hoffman. The defendants, including David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE); Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden of MOBE and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS);and Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Youth International Party (Yippies), were accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.]]> 2017-12-08 13:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214474815 7993837391 https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214474985 National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations are conducted across the United States involving hundreds of thousands of people. The National Moratorium was an effort by David Hawk and Sam Brown, two antiwar activists, to forge a broad-based movement against the Vietnam War. The organization initially focused its effort on 300 college campuses, but the idea soon grew and spread beyond the colleges and universities. ]]> 2017-12-08 13:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/7993837391/cwmqdpz5icy2/wish/214474985