Teenagers Rebelled In The 1960s & Why They Did
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2024
- You are watching the last 30 minutes of Part 1 of my six part 1990 television series “Making Sense of the Sixties." To see the first half of this program go here - * • What Was Wonderful Abo... .
The series was controversial when it first aired with the New York Times (as an example) presenting two reviews, one positive and one negative. It is currently used by thousands of high schools and colleges to help students to study at that time. It was recorded in 1989 so the comments you are watching present baby boomers and members of the silent generation looking back at their youth experiences.
Prior to my series PBS presented a series called “Eyes On The Prize." It looked at the growth of the civil rights movement during that time. My series focused on the tens of millions of young people who grew up in suburbia. Their parents were moving into the middle class and moving to suburbia to live what they called at the time, the American Dream. They were largely white for the most part, had a mom and a dad with the dad working and the mom a housewife.
Growing up in suburban, urban, and rural America during the 1950s was very different.
The 1950s was the birth of modern suburbia in the United States, spurred by the post-WWII economic boom and the housing demand from returning soldiers. Suburbia was characterized by a sense of uniformity and conformity as seen in the classic rows of similar-looking homes (inspired by the Levittown model where I get up). Life in the suburbs was marked by a strong emphasis on family values with a working father, a stay-at-home mother and children attending local schools. Children growing up in this environment had newly built facilities like parks and community centers and were offered opportunities to engage with a network of peers in a relatively safe and planned environment. However, almost all of these communities were racially and socio-economically homogenous due to discriminatory practices like redlining.
In contrast, 1950s cities were hubs of cultural and economic diversity. They were bustling with industry and were more racially and ethnically diverse. Kids growing up in these environments were exposed to a wider range of cultural experiences but they often also faced challenges tied to overcrowding, pollution, and in some cases, crime. Economic disparity was also more evident in urban environments. But urban kids had access to resources like museums, libraries and a range of public facilities that were usually not available in suburbs or rural areas.
Growing up in the 1950s in a rural government such as on a farm was a significantly different experience. The pace of life was slower compared to urban and suburban areas, and children would likely have had more responsibilities tied to the family's agricultural work. The sense of community was often tighter and access to amenities and resources (like shopping centers, cinemas, hospitals or varied educational opportunities) were more limited. The rural school experience differed from the urban and suburban experiences due to smaller school sizes and often multi-grade classrooms. Despite the harder work and fewer amenities, many people who grew up in rural areas speak fondly of the sense of freedom that they felt, the connection to nature, and the close-knit community bonds they experienced.
I have presented other clips from my series on my CZcams channel and some have commented that their experiences were different. Please remember that the focus of my series which largely on what young people experienced whose families had left the cities and moved into the suburban growing middle-class.
If you were alive and growing up at that time I want you to know that I appreciate all of the comments presenting different experiences whether or not they were articulated in this sequence.
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i was born in '52, and was part of a generation of suburban new jersey kids who had most everything handed to them... education, plentiful jobs, positive recreation, entertainment were all readily available for myself and my friends. we didn't realize or appreciate what our parents went through (depression/war) and all the hard work that they did to house/clothe/feed/educate us and to achieve the many blessings that they handed to us as loving parents. so we "rebelled", dismissing their experience and wisdom, thinking that we because of our youth knew better how to create fulfilling lives... by in large we were wrong.
@mj99a... Excellent comment! my mom also grew up during the great depression of the 1930's and WW2 of the first half of the 40's one of her favorite sayings I heard often growing up was "Kids of today don't know how good they have it"? looking back on it many years later I see she was right.
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@drewpall2598 💥
They were just trying to give us what they didn’t have in those turbulent times, but I didn’t know better and took all of that for granted.
@@loislewis5229 im in the same boat , i did too...and to be honest i still beat myself up over that . I wish i could go back and have been more respectful .
I'm 70 years old, and still have my black leather jacket. It still fits. I hear "Hey! Moto Granny!" on the street.
I was born in 78 and I took so much information like this for granted, civil rights, wars, rock and roll, ect. I was set on go from a young age, grew up in a patch took my first hit of orange sunshine at 13, first of a whole bunch, latch key kids in w.v. with several like minded friends all through the 90s and life long thus far. been a devoted father since 21, still am, youngest is 3 . to me stories like this are so important for our children to know and to know how recent all this happend. things and information are happening at an insane pace but it'd so important to remember, helps keep us grounded and to remember how important what we do each day is, for ourselves and more importantly each other! anyway, thanks 💚
Ohhhh love it!!
Thanks David
What a wonderful documentary, the heart of those issues so clearly demonstrated. Thank you, David Hoffman .✨️💖✨️
I was born in 1961 and grew up to this.
When I was 13 in 1974, I no longer wanted Donny Osmond records but I knew my mother would refuse rock or anything. I was badly influenced by rock and my oarents even said no to Beatles or Elvis. However, growing up more I became more devious. I told mom I wanted Christian music. She asked what their names were and I said..Sabbath and Nazareth. Black Sabbath and Nazareth but she didn't know so she gave me the money. There were reasons why our parents were suspicious.
There were reasons. I hope your reasons were trivial compared to what you could have lost. And I hope today has made you glad to be on planet earth. It's good to be here! Some of us aren't here anymore.
It is so wild to me that MUSIC was so limited back then. I grew up with rock and roll. My parents are in their 60s now, they are quite rebellious - as am I.
You have to remember that in the 50s Hollyweird started on the kids as moneymakers too. Many parents were outraged their kids were being influenced away from God.
🤣 can't believe I hadn't known that before, weird
I remember in the mid 50s I was approximately 13 years old 14 years old, there was a song on the jukebox in the lunch Annette that we used to go to the song name was my Dingaling by Chuck Berry. It was sun like my Dingaling my Dingaling oh my the greatest thing I know a girl she live next-door. She liked to play with my Dingaling well, the owner of the store came over, pulled the plug out of the jukebox and told us kids to get out, what Chuck Berry was talking about was a little small sailboat, but that caused a lot of trouble in the neighborhood, us kids thought it was hilarious
David, thank you so much for sharing your old documentaries with us. This was superb and thought-provoking. Thank you. 💗
David Hoffman, you lived through the 1950's and listen to Rock N' Roll look how you turn out. I say Rock N' Roll music can't be all bad? 😉
As disturbing as some of these images are in this documentary in this day of age it's capture how turbulent the 1960's were, I was fortunate to have lived through the 60's at a young age to really know what was happening in this world, as for me the 60's were loud and colorful times from fashion to music and television shows.
It was in the early 70's where my love for the 60's began when they showed the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy, 5-year anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival, the summer of love and Woodstock Festival on Televison, Thanks David Hoffman 😊✌🧡
Ohhh what you have seen, Drew!
This day and age is disturbing for different reasons.
@@richlisola1honestly, the whole sexuality of children movement is 10000000x scarier than some rock music. Parents from back then would simple parish if they saw what we deal with now 😂😂 and at least they had each other, the half of the parents have gone nuts now too
@@Cafeallday222 My last grandparent died in 2012, and as dark a year as that was, losing my grandma. Sometimes I feel grateful that she didn’t live to see today.
2012 as bad as things were getting, was mild when likened to 2024 insanity.
@@richlisola1me too, grandmother passed last year and was a very conservative lady but she had Alzheimers for years so thank god she didn’t know what was going on around her. She thought yoga was some dark art, imagine the heart attack she would have had!!
50s 60s and 70s were the great years before the world 🌍 was fked 😅
No it wasn’t you fuckin retard. Maybe if you were white and a man.
Excellent! Thanks David 😎👍
I came from a backwoods area that just before I was born, had one room schools and a wood stove. I think this subject is a little over produced. I grew up with wood heat, chopped and sawed wood, having lived longer with wood heat than any other means, most of my life, and a whole lot of people I grew up with lived the same way. A lot of us, black white or whatever lived with substandard conditions compared to cities, but we felt as whole as anybody, and then of course, going to junior high and high school was cultural shock and we took a licking from the upper class kids, but many of us backwoods kids went above and beyond in our learning, because fashion and things like that didn't stand in our way. I went to school with Indian kids from a reservation, and nobody I was around, felt they were any different. A few black kids came in as navy brats, and I can't remember any ill will, except from maybe some of the real hard core hicks, and it was a competitive thing, instead of racial mostly. There was some trouble wit h Philippine military brads that formed gangs, but before that, there was no gangs.
So it was a good time until something ruined it? What happened?
Increíble
I think this was more the '50's than the 60's, at least in my childhood of the '60's, there was some of it but not it was dying out by the time I started school, 1961
Im 70 and remember those nuc drills in school down to the basement fall out shelter ground floor.
I admit to you that I grew up to become a rebel. I was 15 and 1974 when I started questioning I just about everything my parents did. And especially what they said! Once I sat down and thought about all the lies they told me and what big hypocrites they were I lost all respect for them. That just led to me leaving home and I was 16.
That’s the Pluto in Leo/Virgo generation.
I could've written this except I was 15 in 1971 and had left. Hitchhiking across the country several times, living in the mountains in a place called Free State. I guess you'd call it a commune but it wasn't like the movie version or a Charles Manson kind of thing, not at all. I still think back very fondly of that place
@@lindaward3156free state in South Africa?
@@joolsv4125 No, Free state in Nethers Va
They were probably glad you left, now they could enjoy lovemaking without you disrupting them in mod orgasm and then you eating the last slices of pie.
Interesting David the 1960s and the civil rights movement. Thank you for sharing this.😎👍 Going to local schools woman staying home as a homemaker, men out working in the work force.
David Hoffman has to be the most important video historian in the history of the human race. God bless you sir. You have informed and educated us in experiences otherwise lost. You can interview me anytime.
You should interview
Dan Inosanto or James DeMile.
The last of literally just a few that can attest to what the maximum extremes of speed, strength, fitness and martial art feats of any human Bruce Lee. They speak of him without conflicting bias like a jealous chuck norris or other who blatantly lie after his death.
What does this have to do with this video. Nothing. I’m just speaking off topic sir
Circa 1970 Brier Jr High Seattle suburb. Had to keep my shirt tucked in, Levis 501......suspect.
That’s insane that a book with minimal cussing and a scene with a prostitute, such as Catcher in the Rye, was banned from syndication in these schools. Now, 65, 70 years later, here I am, writing about it for my AP Literature exam, as it is considered to be of the same literary merit as 19th century classics, akin to the likes of “A Tale of Two Cities” or Wuthering Heights,” of which were probably shunned during their day.
Bedankt
It was the best time of my life,would do it over in a second if I could.
23:15 to 23:25 is worth watching a few times to let that soak in
11:00 Didn't expect to see William in another documentary
Its still All "Drip Drip Drip" 😋
Maybe they were all a part of a higher intelligence they did not understand at the time. I higher plan that later birthed Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.
Awww, bless
I'm from the UK .Was born in 1978 and still remember my grandparents hoarding tinned food powdered milk .batterys and water purifier .ready for the nuclear attack that fhey were ADAMANT was going to happen .
I was terrified about it and had nightmares about me been squished under these wierd fire bellows .
Its the first nightmare i remember having.
My mum went mad when she found out what her parents hD been filling my head with when i used to stay in the school holidays . It was the mid 80s and my grandad still had tinned stewing steak and tinned fruit pears and carnation milk when we cleared his house out after he died in 2004 .
Literally almost 20 years out of date 😂😂
*Time is Funny
>implying it wasnt subversion.
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David, i suspect I can rely on you to hear strange thoughts. This is a strange one, for sure. A "middle of life" thought, not a young one or an old one.
Is it possible that when we're young, we're attempting to exert our independence? And that when we're older we exert our dependence?
Youth is surely different from seniority, for sure. In our youth, we say "i don't need you, i can do all this on my own!". And when we're old, we say "ive got to have other ways to do this."
So, it's sort of like independence and dependence are merely two different stages of life. And they are in fact quite different! Not only that, but independence isn't totally independent, and dependence isn't totally dependent.
Ahgh, I don't know what im saying. Im gonna call it a night. But not before wishing you an excellent day! ❤
Endless cycle
ZAP Comics.
Unprincipled rebellion is just narcissism dressed up as sophistication.
Spoiled brats.