![]() ![]() The culture war was also about sex: From the simple call to “make love, not war” to the growing rift among antiwar activists over the role of women in the movement, the children of the post-World War II baby boom led the country toward new attitudes about sex and sexuality. A student is removed from the Columbia University campus in Manhattan by plainclothes officers during a sit-in protest in late April. A peace demonstrator appropriates a combat helmet during widespread protests outside the White House on Election Day. A peace demonstrator appropriates a combat helmet during widespread protests outside the White House on Election Day.įROM TOP: National Guard troops block Beale Street as civil rights protesters march through Memphis wearing matching placards in March. Firefighters help an injured person in the middle of 14th Street NW in the District as riot fires rage on April 5. For six weeks in Washington, protesters, inspired by King’s call for a Poor People’s Campaign, camped out on the Mall in tents and shacks, re-christening the space as Resurrection City and demanding that the government create anti-poverty programs.ĬLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: National Guard troops block Beale Street as civil rights protesters march through Memphis wearing matching placards in March. In America’s cities, blacks demanded access to their share of political power, economic opportunity and cultural visibility. At the Olympics, black-gloved fists, held up by two African American athletes for all the world to see, asserted a new dynamic in the country’s oldest, deepest conflict. The culture war was about race: A white supremacist murdered black America’s strongest voice for equality and grace. Young men who enrolled in college got a bye, and they were generally a more affluent and whiter slice of the demographic pie. The ostensible cause of the division often appeared to be the nation’s dispiriting trudge through a land war 8,000 miles away, in Southeast Asia - a conflict mainly fought by working-class and poor draftees. Parents roamed city streets searching for teenagers who’d run away to be hippies or antiwar activists or just to reject their elders and find the new thing. In 1968, the races clashed, college kids faced off against blue-collar workers, the young turned against the old. That fall, there were 41 antiwar bombings and arson attacks on college campuses. Antiwar radicals burned files at a military draft center in Maryland. In Mississippi, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a synagogue. ![]() Hardly a week went by without reports of bombings and arson attacks from the left and right: San Francisco suffered a rash of explosions and bomb threats by revolutionary groups, resulting in severed phone lines, damaged electrical towers and paralyzed traffic. From above the moon, Apollo 8 astronauts capture a Christmas portrait of the Earth - its first. track athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos raise their gloved hands in racial protest on the medal stand at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Poole (Gary Lockwood) starts his airlock showdown with the HAL 9000 computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”įROM TOP: Poole (Gary Lockwood) starts his airlock showdown with the HAL 9000 computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Psychedelic rocker Jimi Hendrix, from left, and bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding enjoy a restful moment. Zaius (Maurice Evans) in “Planet of the Apes.” Psychedelic rocker Jimi Hendrix, from left, and bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding enjoy a restful moment. Taylor (Charlton Heston) makes his ultimate escape from Dr. ![]()
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