HIS 2366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Supreme Court Of The United States, Interracial Marriage, Kent State Shootings
13 Dec 2015
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Lecture #36 notes lauren poor his 2366 (fall 2015) Counterculture culture now define by personal choice: woodstock, lsd people wanted to remove themselves from reality. Personal liberation and the free individual: means of demonstrating rights. Faith and the counterculture: religious revival when things go back people often turn to religion, people not returning to traditional, but communes, cults, etc. (removed communities, alternative religious means yoga, buddhism, hinduism. Second wave of feminism: despite right to vote, equal pay and such are still not realized goals, freedom to exercise choices that go outside social expectations. The feminist mystique by betty ferguson: there"s so much inequality still; wave starts in 70s. Women"s liberation: kathrine switzer until 1972, women were not allowed to run in marathons (photo) First woman to run the boston marathon http://espn. go. com/photo/2012/0411/espnw_a_switzer1_mb_576_576. jpg: initiates equality in sports. How do we define freedom based on personal choice now: gay liberation (example) Latino activism: emphasized pride in mexican past, tied to labor struggles.
