Week 8 Response – Anika Czander

Something interesting that I noted in Todd Gitlin’s Introduction in The Sixties: Years of Hope Days of Rage was the idea of a revolution dying down. He mentions that at one point, “the movement’s (and my) forward motion was broken”. He later goes on to say, “by the early Seventies the upheaval was over as mysteriously as it had appeared, and as worldwide”. This is a very thought-provoking notion, as we spend a lot of time in class talking about how the revolutions of the 1960s still affect our society today. I would disagree in saying that the upheaval was over; It may have taken a break, but it prevails even today. We can see the continuation of these revolutions in the newest wave of the feminist movement and that of the Black Lives Matter movement. It has been noted often that the Women’s March on DC and the many Black Lives Matter marches are very similar to the protests of the 1960s, in both causes and methods.