AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, National Environmental Policy Act, Hubert Humphrey
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Student movement: college students start taking action against social issues, protests, demonstrations, etc, sometimes these protests would get unruly, administrators started cracking down on protesters, cal-berkeley. Students started doing sit-ins in different buildings. Eventually, students were allowed to do demonstrations on campus again: colombia university. 100 students injured, 700 arrested: these events sparked protests on other campuses. Anti-war movement: people against the war in vietnam, fear among college students of being drafted after college, ma(cid:374)(cid:455) feel the u should(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e gotte(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) the first pla(cid:272)e. Drops out of the race: eugene mccarthy, hubert humphrey. But he is assassinated: party is split over the war, hawks people who were in favor of fighting, doves those against the war. Democratic national convention: delegates bound to vote for lbj and kennedy both are not in race, kennedy is dead, delegates fighting over mccarthy and humphrey. Inside dnc fighting about politics: outside dnc people literally fighting with police about war, humphrey takes nomination.
