Teach-In 1969 - US History

In this activity we will attempt to recreate the activist atmosphere of college campuses and high schools in the late 1960's. Each student will play the role of an activist at a campus teach-in on "current" social issues. Your group will have the floor of the teach-in for at least 3 minutes during the simulation. During these 3 minutes you should accomplish the following:

1. Explain your objection to the status quo - What's been going down?

2. Describe your position in relation to other activists [historic figures] on the same

issues

3. Make a clear proposal for action with some specific role for students [your audience]

4. Make a clear prediction of how you expect the Establishment to respond. What is the

basis for your prediction? [historical precedent]

5. Have a "media friendly" moment.

Extra credit for authentic dress, language and enthusiasm. Can you dig it, man?

Groups and Key Words:

1. Black Power (not a single organization) - Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale

2. National Organization for Women (NOW) or radical feminists (not a single organization)

3. American Indian Movement (AIM), Alcatraz occupation, Wounded Knee stand-off

4. Youth International Party (Yippies) - Abbie Hoffman or Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

5. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee - Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta

6. Gay rights (not a single organization)- Stonewall Riots

Internet Resources:

The Psychedelic '60's

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

20th Century American History

http://www.liberty.edu/resources/library/public/as/history/american/20th.htm

U.S. Society, Values and Politics

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/socval.htm

1960's History Resources - Ithaca High School Library Media Center

http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/library/60s.html

Black Power

Google African American History Index

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-American/History/

Howard University Library - African American History Internet Links

http://www.founders.howard.edu/afroam2.htm

A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place In the Black Liberation Movement

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/acoli-hist-bpp.html

They were not only young and angry, but thought they could change the world. And . . ., they did.

http://www.afroam.org/history/Panthers/panther-lead.html

Black Panther Party Homepage

http://www.blackpanther.org/

1960's Feminism

Yahoo's Index of Women's History Resources

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Women_s_History/

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

National Women's History Project

http://www.nwhp.org/

Women's History in America Presented by Women's International Center

http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

Women in American History

http://www.britannica.com/women/

AIM

Internet School Library Media Center Native American page

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

Native American History Resources - Osaka University

http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/history.html

AIM Homepage

http://www.dickshovel.com/AIMIntro.html

Chronological History of AIM

http://members.aol.com/Nowacumig/chrono.html

We Hold the Rock - Alcatraz Occupation

http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/indian.html

Remembering Wounded Knee

http://www.dickshovel.com/lsa19.html

Yippies/SDS

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/

Kent State University Library

http://www.library.kent.edu/speccoll/4may95/gsds.html

Port Huron Statement

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html

UFW

United Farm Workers Home Page

http://www.ufw.org/ufw/

Cesar Chavez Farm Union Organizer

http://www.who2.com/cesarchavez.html

Gay Rights

The Other Queer Page - History/Herstory Web links

http://www.toqp.com/hisherstory.html

The Stonewall Riot and Its Aftermath

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/

Documents from the 1969 Furor

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/1969docs.html

GLAA 1 9 7 1 - 2 0 0 1 Thirty years of fighting for equal rights

http://www.glaa.org/resources/timeline.shtmll