1968: Nation on the Move
1968: Industry declines, creating an unemployed population of mostly African American communities in major urban centers. Dr. King is assassinated after traveling to Memphis to support the sanitation worker's strike.
1968 -1970 - Expansion of social movements including but not limited to the Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, The Young Lords, Students for Democratic Society, Stonewall Rebellion, Brown Berets, I Wor Kuen and prisoners organizing for rights. Many of the activists are jailed, discredited and/or killed through COINTELPRO.
Re-imagining and Self-Determination
1966: Black Panthers draft their Ten-Point Program. Students in the Bronx use it as the template for calling for a better education in their community.
1968: Young Lords organize in response to gentrification of the Puerto Rican community in downtown and lakefront Chicago.
Late 1960's: Rainbow Coalition forms as a "code word" for class struggle. The coalition includes the Black Panthers, The Young Lords Party and the white working class revolutionary group, the Young Patriots.
1969: Stonewall Rebellion brings gay rights to national attention.
1969: The Weather Underground organize the Days of Rage as a protest against the trial of the Chicago 7, a group of activists imprisoned for organizing protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 over the Vietnam War.
1970: 17-yr old Jonathan Jackson, George Jackon’s younger brother, took the Marin County courthouse judge, D.A., and several jurors hostage during the trial of James McLain, a San Quentin prisoner. The four men tried to escape in a van, but were brutally shot. The Weather Underground later bomb the courthouse as a response.
Discussion Questions:
Why do you think Dr. King was assassinated? Whose power was he challenging towards the end of his life?
What would happen if society as a whole agreed on and decided to work towards the Black Panther ten point program? What would society look like? What would change?
The Rainbow Coalition functioned through interracial unity. How does this challenge what you know about social movements in the sixties? Why do you think these social movements are often remembered as separate?
Additional Resources:
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power [Book]
COINTELPRO 101 [Documentary]
The Weather Underground [Documentary]
Ten Point Program [Teaching Activity]
1968 -1970 - Expansion of social movements including but not limited to the Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, The Young Lords, Students for Democratic Society, Stonewall Rebellion, Brown Berets, I Wor Kuen and prisoners organizing for rights. Many of the activists are jailed, discredited and/or killed through COINTELPRO.
Re-imagining and Self-Determination
1966: Black Panthers draft their Ten-Point Program. Students in the Bronx use it as the template for calling for a better education in their community.
1968: Young Lords organize in response to gentrification of the Puerto Rican community in downtown and lakefront Chicago.
Late 1960's: Rainbow Coalition forms as a "code word" for class struggle. The coalition includes the Black Panthers, The Young Lords Party and the white working class revolutionary group, the Young Patriots.
1969: Stonewall Rebellion brings gay rights to national attention.
1969: The Weather Underground organize the Days of Rage as a protest against the trial of the Chicago 7, a group of activists imprisoned for organizing protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 over the Vietnam War.
1970: 17-yr old Jonathan Jackson, George Jackon’s younger brother, took the Marin County courthouse judge, D.A., and several jurors hostage during the trial of James McLain, a San Quentin prisoner. The four men tried to escape in a van, but were brutally shot. The Weather Underground later bomb the courthouse as a response.
Discussion Questions:
Why do you think Dr. King was assassinated? Whose power was he challenging towards the end of his life?
What would happen if society as a whole agreed on and decided to work towards the Black Panther ten point program? What would society look like? What would change?
The Rainbow Coalition functioned through interracial unity. How does this challenge what you know about social movements in the sixties? Why do you think these social movements are often remembered as separate?
Additional Resources:
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power [Book]
COINTELPRO 101 [Documentary]
The Weather Underground [Documentary]
Ten Point Program [Teaching Activity]
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