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This 12 page paper provides background information on the SDS as well as other movements prevalent during the 1960's. The thesis of this paper is that the SDS did not succeed because the organization had a socialist bent, something that did not mesh with a rising conservative movement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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wives with a "Stepford" mentality were thrown away and the new woman who could bring home the bacon and cook it emerged. The newfound superwoman of the seventies and eighties
would be replaced by the women with gripes in the 1990s; they complained that doing it all is not all that it is cracked up to be. But the sixties
was a time of significant change both politically and socially. Rarely has there been a disturbance in sociocultural continuity so abrupt as what erupted in the middle of the
1960s (1998). The sixties would reveal a Berkeley student revolt also called the Free Speech Movement that occurred in 1964, an event that was followed by an upsurge in the
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (Garrett, 1998). The demonstrations against the Vietnam War were at their height in 1965 and it was followed by the sexual revolution
along with the emergence of the drug subculture (1998). Yet, the emphasis that young people put on sex and drugs was not something that occurred out of the blue. It
was not necessarily a backlash against society as seen today. Rather, the context of the orgies and drug experimentation occurred in the context of a war that took the lives
of Americas youth. When Country Joe and the Fish sang in their "I Feel Like Im Fixin to Die Rag" at Woodstock in 1969 --"whoopee, were all gonna die"--they
meant that literally. The youth of America were not dying of drugs or unsafe sex, something that concerns parents today. Rather, they were dying at the hands of the U.S.
government and the nations intervention in another part of the world for a cause that many did not even fathom, much less believe in. Organizations cropped up and the protests
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