May 4th Class: Sept. 9
We FINALLY got to watch Dr. Barbato's PowerPoint, and it was incredible. I had to actually make myself write shit down.
What follows are my actual scratchings. They may be sketchy and incomplete, but at least I wrote something.
The beginnings of the "generation gap"
- "I thought it would be...different." - from "The Graduate"
- big example: after May 4, the older generation wished more students had been shot for disobeying the ONG (Ohio National Guard) - younger generation were horrified by it
Port Huron Statement
- Jan. 11-15, 1965
- called for brotherhood and racial equality
Summer of Love 1967
- centered in San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury)
Woodstock Aug. 15-18, 1969 Bethel, NY
- basically an anti-war demonstration
- marked the end of the counterculture
1968 Democratic Convention - Chicago
- Student demonstrations - clash btwn pro- and anti-war protesters
- Found to be a police riot
These protests were born of the protests of the Civil Rights movement
- Lunch counter sit-ins
- Freedom Riders - traveled to MS to register blacks to vote - Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
- Many Freedom Riders were killed
Black Panther Party
- "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense"
Anti-war movement
- Showed distrust with the government
- Nixon thought it was unpatriotic and funded by communists
- most prevalent in colleges due to the draft
- BUS - Black United Students - started at Kent in 1967-68
April 30, 1970
- Nixon announced that the war would expand into Cambodia
May 1, 1970
- Kent State held a rally on the Commons by the Victory Bell - people burned draft cards
- That night, small bonfire on Water Street closed bars, riots prompted mayor to call ONG
May 2, 1970
- ONG went on campus - 8 p.m. rally turned into the ROTC building being burned down
May 3, 1970
- ONG were fully on campus
- Gov. Rhodes came to Kent - "We are going to eradicate the problem. We're not going to treat the symptoms..." - statements were incorrectly interpreted as marshal law
May 4, 1970
- entire shootings took 13 seconds - 4 dead, 9 wounded
- after the shootings, the students formed on the Commons - ONG was ready to fire on students again - Prof. Glenn Frank pleaded with the students to leave or be shot at again; students dispersed
I'll also try to get links to my readings, since right now they're only accessible via the school's BlackBoard Vista site.
What follows are my actual scratchings. They may be sketchy and incomplete, but at least I wrote something.
The beginnings of the "generation gap"
- "I thought it would be...different." - from "The Graduate"
- big example: after May 4, the older generation wished more students had been shot for disobeying the ONG (Ohio National Guard) - younger generation were horrified by it
Port Huron Statement
- Jan. 11-15, 1965
- called for brotherhood and racial equality
Summer of Love 1967
- centered in San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury)
Woodstock Aug. 15-18, 1969 Bethel, NY
- basically an anti-war demonstration
- marked the end of the counterculture
1968 Democratic Convention - Chicago
- Student demonstrations - clash btwn pro- and anti-war protesters
- Found to be a police riot
These protests were born of the protests of the Civil Rights movement
- Lunch counter sit-ins
- Freedom Riders - traveled to MS to register blacks to vote - Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
- Many Freedom Riders were killed
Black Panther Party
- "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense"
Anti-war movement
- Showed distrust with the government
- Nixon thought it was unpatriotic and funded by communists
- most prevalent in colleges due to the draft
- BUS - Black United Students - started at Kent in 1967-68
April 30, 1970
- Nixon announced that the war would expand into Cambodia
May 1, 1970
- Kent State held a rally on the Commons by the Victory Bell - people burned draft cards
- That night, small bonfire on Water Street closed bars, riots prompted mayor to call ONG
May 2, 1970
- ONG went on campus - 8 p.m. rally turned into the ROTC building being burned down
May 3, 1970
- ONG were fully on campus
- Gov. Rhodes came to Kent - "We are going to eradicate the problem. We're not going to treat the symptoms..." - statements were incorrectly interpreted as marshal law
May 4, 1970
- entire shootings took 13 seconds - 4 dead, 9 wounded
- after the shootings, the students formed on the Commons - ONG was ready to fire on students again - Prof. Glenn Frank pleaded with the students to leave or be shot at again; students dispersed
I'll also try to get links to my readings, since right now they're only accessible via the school's BlackBoard Vista site.