The in the US and Europe: From Civil Rights to Cultural Revolution Dr Rachel Wallace Please note: The course syllabus provides a general plan for the course. Readings, test dates, grade weights and assignments may change as necessary.

Introduction: Key elements of our culture -- its patterns of consumption, its youth culture, and its sexual and social identities -- were forged in the sixties. Some look back with nostalgia on the utopian politics, the counterculture and the mass movements of that period. Others see the 1960s as the beginning of everything wrong with our contemporary society. In this module we examine the transnational protest movements and social trends that made the 1960s a cultural revolution in North America and Europe. This course investigates the transnational social, political, and cultural contestations of the 1960s. Each week, we take a different snapshot of the 1960s, moving from religious reforms, to the civil rights movement, to anti-war movements, to feminism, gay rights, counterculture, rock music and drug culture, terrorism and places in between. Students will not only study how the 1960s unfolded in different national contexts, but the ways in which that decade was itself the product of transnational flows of ideas, symbols, people, strategies, and movements. At the same time, we will see how the 1960s served as the pivot of a much longer period, stretching from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s. Together, we aim to determine exactly how the 1960s were transnational, whether simultaneous events were coincidental or planned, and the ways in which the legacies of this wave of protest have informed today’s political conjuncture. The module incorporates film, documentary, music, literature, posters, art, objects and interviews alongside written sources to engage students with the history of the 1960s.

Aims: The aims of this course are: 1) to provide students with an understanding of the continuities transformations of the 1960s. 2) to acquaint students with a variety of historical sources from this period as well as with secondary materials and historiographical debates. 3) to promote the development of key skills required to study history effectively.

Learning outcomes: On completion of this module, students will be able to demonstrate, through examination answers, the assessed essay and tutorial contributions: 1) an understanding of the basic political currents of the upheavals of 1960s, including Civil Rights, the , counter culture and feminism. 2) an understanding of some of the wider transformations of European and North American society in the realms of religion, culture and gender relations. 3) An understanding of the impact of class, gender, race, ethnicity and religion alongside national identity on the experiences of the 1960s

Skills: On completion of this module, students will have acquired the following skills: 1) the ability to engage critically with various kinds of historical evidence, including primary and secondary literature. 2) the ability to distil historical research into a cogent, well-written, well-organized and well- argued essay. 3) the ability to engage with confidence and authority in critical discussions with classmates and the tutor on a wide variety of themes related to social history. 4) the ability to formulate original responses to questions based on research, reading and tutorial discussion.

Course Expectations: 1. Be prepared. Come to class with a copy of the readings (preferably printed) all reading assignments completed, any writing assignments completed, and ready to actively participate in discussion. 2. Be courteous. The classroom is a place for the exchange of ideas. Take care to listen, react, and respond respectfully to one another’s opinions. No intimidating or insulting behavior will be tolerated. 3. Be responsible. Do not fall asleep, pass notes, text message, listen to music, or engage in anything that would be inappropriate behavior for a college classroom. At times, I will ask you to stop. More often than not I will say nothing, and you will receive a zero for participation. 4. Be yourself. Each of us has unique perspectives, experiences, and understandings of the world we live in, please share them within the context of the course. This only broadens our collective historical knowledge.

Grading and Assignments:

Overall Grade will be determined as a percentage accumulated from the various assignments. Each assignment is graded as a percentage i.e: 94+% A, 90-94% A-, 87-89%=B+, 84-86%=B, 80-83%=B-, etc.

• Class Participation: 20% • You are not demanded to participate continuously in discussion, BUT you are still encouraged to ask questions and give comments on the readings when appropriate. This includes when divided into groups to discuss the readings. • Eight Online Quizzes: 20% • 10 questions per quiz • Primary Source analysis 10% o 1-2 page paper • Research Paper Assignment: 30% • 5-7 page research paper • Final Exam: 20% • Total: 100%

Attendance:

It is the student’s responsibility to attend regularly, or to plan ahead if they know in advance that they will miss a class. I do not post any lecture material (include slides or lecture notes) online, nor do I provide lecture notes to anyone who may ask. Students who miss class must to obtain notes for the classes missed from another student. While class is in session, I expect all students who attend to stay until the end of lecture – those who must leave before end of class should notify me in advance. Students should arrive to class on time, but should you arrive late, please enter the classroom quietly to avoid disrupting lecture or discussion. Again, students who attend should stay for the duration of the class. Please avoid chatting with neighbors, texting friends, or engaging in other non-class-related activities. Students should turn cell phones off or put them in silent mode. Students should ensure that they have read the assigned readings before class and are prepared to engage in intellectual debate. Unexcused Absences: Since class attendance comprises a significant part of your grade for this course, any student who misses more than three classes without an appropriate excuse will have his/her grade for "attendance and participation" reduced by one full letter grade for each additional class meeting that s/he misses.

Advisory/Disclaimer

History is about real people, diverse cultures, interesting theories, strongly held belief systems, complex situations, and dramatic actions. Students are expected to behave respectfully towards their peers and instructor. Disruptive behaviour will result in penalties and possibly removal from the classroom. This does not mean that there can’t be lively discussions and disagreements, but personal attacks, interruptions, excessive volume, threatening gestures or words, and failure to give others a chance to speak and be heard are not acceptable. What about Make-Up Exams, Extra Credit, etc.? If a student misses an assignment for an acceptable, documented reason, I will provide an alternative assignment for the student to make up the points. Opportunities for extra credit remain at the instructor’s discretion. Should any opportunities become available, I will announce the details in class. Any such opportunity will be open to all students, or none (I do not provide individual cases of extra credit, please do not ask). Students who have questions about their grades on assignments must initiate contact with the instructor within one week of receiving the graded work.

Late Assignments? If a student submits an assignment late without an acceptable documented reason it will be penalized a grade per day and after 7 days will be marked as an F. If you think an assignment will be late and you have an acceptable, appropriate reason please do not hesitate to contact me.

Readings: There is no textbook for this module. Each week will include both secondary readings and primary sources.

Course Schedule:

Date Topic Assigned Readings: Week 1: Introduction to the 1960s – Jakob Tanner, “Motions and August 19-23 The 1960s in contemporary Emotions” memory Primary source: bring a primary source from 1960s

How to read for history: https://courses.bowdoin.edu/writing- guides/reading/ Week 2: Cold War politics Monday Reading: August 26-30 1. Communism/Anti- David K. Johnson, “America’s Cold communism War Empire: Exporting the Lavender 2. Lavender Scare Scare”

Friday Primary Sources:

JFK, “Address to the American People about the Cuban Missile Crisis,” , 1962

Frank Kameny, “Letter to the US House of Representatives” (1962)

Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)

Quiz 1 due Friday August 30th Monday Sept 2 – No class Labor Day Week 3: ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Left Monday Reading: September 4-6 Gerd Rainer Horn, Chapter 4

Friday Primary source reading: Herbert Marcuse, “On the New Left” Leszek Kowlakowski, “The Concept of the Left” C. Wright Milk, "Letter to the New Left," New Left Review, September- October 1960, pp. 18-23

Quiz 2 due Friday September 6th

Week 4: Civil Rights Movement I Monday Reading: September 9-13 (early 1960s) Brian Dooley, “Second Class Particularly US and Citizens” chapter 2 – CORE, SCLC, SNCC, Campaign Friday primary source reading: for Social Justice, Northern Campaign For Social Justice Ireland Civil Rights Pamphlets (1964) Association etc Letter from a Birmingham jail (1963) Fanie Lou Hamer Testimony (1964)

Week 5: Civil Rights Movement II Monday Readings:Simon Prince, “Do September 16-20 (late 1960s) What the Afro-Americans Are Doing': Black Power and the Start of the Particularly US and Northern Ireland Troubles,”Journal of Northern Ireland - Black Contemporary History, Vol. 50, No. 3 Power, People’s (JULY 2015), pp. 516-535 Democracy etc Friday Primary Source: Black Panther Party 10 Point Program Bernadette Devlin’s maiden speech in the House of Commons () NI conflict posters

Primary Source analysis due Friday 20th September Week 6: Environmental Monday Reading: September 23-27 movement/anti-nuclear Stephen Milder, “Greening movement Democracy” Chapter 1

Friday Primary source reading: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring excerpts Indigenous environmental activism Denis Hayes, “The Beginning,” Earth Day—The Beginning: A Guide for Survival, ed. Environment Action (New York, 1970), i–iii.

Quiz 3 due Friday September 27 Week 7: Vietnam and anti-war Monday reading: September 30- protest Rimko van der Maar, ‘Johnson War Criminal!’ in the Netherlands Friday Primary sources: Lyndon Johnson, “Why Fight in Vietnam,” The Resistance, “We Refuse to Serve” British-Vietnam Solidarity Front bulletin (October 1968) Week 8: Student Protest Monday Reading: -11 Ronald Fraser, 1968 A Student Generation in Revolt

Friday Reading: Daniel Cohn-Bendit Interviewed by Jean-Paul Sartre in The French Student Revolt: the Leaders Speak (New York, 1968): 73-83. Berkley Free Speech Movement sources Revolutionary Sociality Students Federation Manifesto (1968)

Research Paper due Friday (this paper will not be included on the Midterm Grade) Fall Break -15 Week 9: Working-Class and Worker Monday Readings: -18 Protest Gerd Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America 1956-1976 chapter 3

Friday Primary Sources: United Farm Workers Address to All Workers (Paris )

Week 10: Feminism and Sexual Monday Readings: -25 Revolution Clara Juncker, “The Transatlantic • The pill Women’s Movement: Literary and • Free Cultural Perspectives” • Women’s activism

Friday Primary Source: No More Miss America “The SDS –Overblown, Counterrevolutionary Ball of Yeast Dough” Jaffe and Dohrn, “The Look is You”

Quiz 4 due Friday Week 11: Counterculture Monday Readings: - Drugs, rock and roll, Russell Duncan “The Summer of alternative religions Love and Protest: Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960s”

Friday Primary source readings: “A Gathering of the Tribes” Kommune 1 primary sources

Quiz 5 due Friday November 1 Week 12: Radical Left and Terror Monday Readings:Jeremy Varon, November 4-8 • E.g. The Weather Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Underground, the , Red Army Faction, Irish Republic and Revolutionary Violence in the Army Sixties and Seventies chapter 1

Friday Primary Sources: Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries Ulrike Meinhof From Protest to Resistance (1968) Crisis Paper No. 14, The Challenge of the Urban Guerrilla

Quiz 6 due Friday November 8 Week 13: Gay Liberation Monday Reading: November 11-15 Justin Suran, "Coming out against the War: Antimilitarism and the politicization of homosexuality in the era of Vietnam" American Quarterly (2001) Friday Primary source: Gay Liberation Manifesto International Congress for Sexual Equality newsletter Sexual offences act 1967 Oral history interviews with gay liberation activists Week 14: Conservatism Monday Readings: November 18-23 Chapter from The Conservative Sixties

Primary Source: Strom Thurmond, Ch. 1, The Faith We Have Not Kept (1968) Anti-Feminism and Anti-Choice readings Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood speech 1968

Quiz 7 due Friday November 22 Week 15: Recap day November 25 November 27-29 Thanksgiving Holidays Week 16: The Impact of the 1960s Jeremy Varon, “Time is an Ocean: December 2-6 and exam prep Past and Future of the Sixties”

Participation Grading: Participation is graded each day using the criteria below. These scores will be 10% of your grade at the end of the semester. I expect the average level of participation to satisfy the criteria for a B.

Grade Expectations

A • Demonstrates excellent preparation: relating it to readings and other material (e.g., readings, course material, discussions, experiences, etc.). • Puts together pieces of the discussion to develop new approaches that take the class further. • Contributes in a very significant way to ongoing discussion both individually and in group discussion: keeps analysis focused, responds very thoughtfully to other students' comments • Demonstrates ongoing very active involvement.

B • Demonstrates good preparation: knows reading facts well, has thought through implications of them. • Offers interpretations and analysis of material (more than just facts) to class. • Contributes well to discussion in an ongoing way: responds to other students' points, thinks through own points, questions others in a constructive way, offers and supports suggestions that may be counter to the majority opinion. • Demonstrates consistent ongoing involvement.

C • Demonstrates adequate preparation: knows reading facts, but does not show evidence of trying to interpret or analyze them. • Demonstrates sporadic involvement.

D • Present, not disruptive. • Responds when called on but does not offer much. • Demonstrates very infrequent involvement in discussion.

F • Absent. • Engaged in disruptive behavior.