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.
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.
Discussion Questions:
Additional Resources:
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power [Book]
COINTELPRO 101 [Documentary]
The Weather Underground [Documentary]
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.
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.
Discussion Questions:
Additional Resources:
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power [Book]
COINTELPRO 101 [Documentary]
The Weather Underground [Documentary]
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