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August 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM. A Chicago police officer carries a young anti-war protester who fainted during the protests [Getty Images] When 21-year-old Indiana University philosophy student Craig ...
Part of the 1968 U.S. presidential election, the Protests of 1968, Opposition to the Vietnam War and political violence in the United States during the Cold War. Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants "The whole world is watching".
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing [ 1] politics, anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against state militaries and bureaucracies .
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.
As tension continued to rise, BSU & the Third World Liberation Front occupied the school's YMCA on March 23, 1968, forcing all YMCA employees to leave. Despite demands from President Summerskill to evacuate the premises, the students remained in protest to keep a revered faculty member as a professor. They listed their demands as: The hiring of ...
High School is a 1968 American documentary film by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for students and faculty at a Pennsylvanian high school during the late 1960s. It is one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries [citation needed] . It was shot over five weeks between March and April 1968 at Northeast High ...
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200 number-one albums of 1968. These are the Billboard magazine number-one pop albums of 1968. Simon & Garfunkel had two number one albums, The Graduate soundtrack and Bookends, which spent a combined 16 consecutive weeks at number one.