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Youth Culture and Social Protest of the 1960s
My dad was a teenager in the late '60s and early 70's.
He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and moved to Chicago when he was barely a teenager.
He got to live through the most exciting and empowering period in American history.
My dad thought that JFK was a noble guy.
"You could tell right away, how great he was. His death was mourned in Mexico, too. He sent aid to the poor there.... He had a respect for humanity and the civil rights of everyone."
As for Johnson...
My dad, along with his generation, thought that he was the guy who escalated our involvement in a war we didn't ever belong in. He was the definition of "The Man." The generation of the '60s rebeled against his actions and he couldn't handle the pressure.
Nixon...
"He was a great guy that made a good impact in the short and long term."
Nixon may be known for his Watergate scandal, but he opened up an extremely important trade with China and helped people see that, realistically, not everyone's bad.
People who embraced the ideas of Martin Luther King...
Like my dad, thought that non-violent protesting was key to showing "that police forces that reacted with violence were the real bad guys."
Many saw it as a waste.
"It cost a lot of lives and put the country in debt. South Vietnam didn't even want us involved!"
"As the war grew on, I saw the draft as unfair. Draftees were going across the world to die young."
"People who came back from the war had to be escorted through the back doors of airports because there were crowds waiting to pelt them with rock and garbage."
Caused by police brutality, discrimination, high unemployment, unaffordable housing, poor schools, and poor healthcare.
Youth Culture and Social Protest of the 1960s
Vietnam War
By Vanessa Hernandez
1967 and '68 Riots
"It was scary and unbelievable. We were fighting a war on the other side of the planet while there was another battle going on at home."