HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mary Brave Bird, 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute, Teatro Campesino
Document Summary
From black power to wounded knee: ethnic nationalism in the 1960s and the 1970s. Racial dimensions of war: different ethnic groups making ties to what"s happening in us to what"s happening in vietnam. People didn"t understand why black people had to fight in the war when they were oppressed at home: mlk didn"t support vietnam. 1968 olympics: had athletes doing black power salute. 1968 dnc: huge clash over the war, thousands of students (yippies) threatened to lace chicago water supply with lsd. There were more cops than protesters so violent clashes broke out between students and police: most people sympathized with police rather than the police. Black power"s singular influence: nation of islam / malcolm x, many women protested the myth that women were burning bras. An older movement that starts in the 1930s. Based in conspiracy belief that humans were all black and an evil geneticist had bred white race.
