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Student Handout Oakland Museum of California What’s Going On? California and the Vietnam Era Lesson Plan #2 1968: Year of Social Change and Turning Point in Vietnam and the U.S.

Recommended Websites for Internet Research

Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive 1. Oakland Museum of California: Picture This: California Perspectives on American History website at http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/index.html • Click on Vietnam/Civil Rights Era first, then click on Vietnam: War.

2. Oakland Museum of California: Lesson 2 Oral History PDFs available for download at: http://www.museumca.org/wgolessons

• Ezra Pratt #1 • Ezra Pratt #2 • Winnie • Frank McAdams • Barbara Sonneborn #1 • John Baky • Barbara Sonneborn #2

3. Vietnam: A Television History The Tet Offensive (1968) Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/107ts.html

4. The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/issues/vietnam.html http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/narrators/M.DUTILLY.html

5. Youngstown State University Oral History Project Go to http://jupiter.ysu.edu/search and type the following local call numbers: • Oral History 1029, then click on “Connect to the document.” • Oral History1226, then click on “Connect to the document.”

6. RE: Vietnam Stories Since the War Go to http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/vietnam/story.html and click on “Oral History” and “the Wall.”

7. Public Broadcasting System’s “Vietnam Online” section of The American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/ This site also has a helpful “Teacher’s Guide, Suggestions for Active Learning.” The “Vietnam Online” transcript on Tet Offensive is available at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/series/pt_06.html

© 2006 Oakland Museum of California WGO Lesson Plan #2 Websites for Internet Research Page 1 of 3 8. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, has an excellent Modern Poetry and background information site at: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/vietnamwar.htm

Civil Rights Movement and the 1. Oakland Museum of California: Picture This: California Perspectives on American History website at http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/index.html • Click on Vietnam/Civil Rights Era first, then click on Civil Rights. • Click on Vietnam/Civil Rights Era first, then click on .

2. Oakland Museum of California: Lesson 2 Oral History PDFs available for download at http://www.museumca.org/wgolessons Civil Rights and Black Panther Party • Bill Brent • • Clay Carson #2 • Dr. Maulana Karenga #1 • Dr. Maulana Karenga #2 • Lois Lundberg #2

3. speaking on “” in Berkeley, California, 1966 http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/stokely_carmichael_blackpower.html

4. PBS’ Two Nations of Black America, interview with: • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/kcleaver.html • Angela Davis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/davis.html

5. Interview with Geronimo Pratt, from Race and Class Magazine, 31, 1, 1993 http://alum.hampshire.edu/~cmnF93/geronimo.txt

6. Interview with Naomi Craig, from The Whole World Was Watching http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/narrators/N.CRAIG.html

7. From the Media Resource Center Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley, The 1960s and 1970s (and Their Aftermath) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/SixtiesVid.html Click on Contents: The Black Panther Party, then click on: Black Panther Party: Online Audio Recordings, then click on Year: 1968 and surf the offerings for interest and then note- taking.

© 2006 Oakland Museum of California WGO Lesson Plan #2 Websites for Internet Research Page 2 of 3 Politics 1. Oakland Museum of California: Lesson 2 Oral History PDFs available for download at: http://www.museumca.org/wgolessons • Lou Cannon • Lionel Chetwynd • Conservative Trend

2. Vietnam: A Television History LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965) Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/104ts.html

3. From The Whole World Was Watching, • Politics http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/issues/usPolitics.html • Interview with Ed Wood, “A Former Marine Turned Reporter in 1968” http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/narrators/E.WOOD.html • Interview with Frank Costigliola, “I Thought War Was Wrong” http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/narrators/F.COSTIGLIOLA.html • Interview with Marsha Aaronson, “The Whole World Was Watching” http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/narrators/M.AARONSON.html

4. From Chicago, 1968 • An Introduction http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/ • Excerpt from “No One Was Killed,” by John Schultz Go to http://www.1968.john-schultz.com/noone.html, then click on Excerpt. • Excerpt from “Steal This Dream,” by Larry Sloman http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0798/sloman/excerpt.html • Photos from Paul Sequeira, “1968 Chicago Democratic Convention http://www.chitown.com/http/art/abchicago-gal/p-sequeira.html

5. From The Diggers Archives Go to http://www.diggers.org/, then click on Enter Site. • Click on Digger Papers 1968. Go to http://www.diggers.org/digger_papers.htm, then surf for interest and note-taking.

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