1965+1973+Lauren+Swiger

During this time period, our country was experiencing many social changes and social issues. Our country was involved in the Vietnam War conflict that many of our young citizens were against and protested our involvement. We had a military draft that all males were included by law. Soldiers that returned home from Vietnam had war trauma and drug problems to overcome. The music scene was changing with many groups addressing the social issues with their lyrics. People gathered together at large college universities to protest this war, such as the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. Youth gangs were a problem in larger cities as well as the acceptance of integration of blacks and whites.

Your assignment is to pick one of these social issues, research it and create a report that tells how it affected our country as a whole and what was done to overcome/correct the issue. This is the same time period that S. E.Hinton wrote the novels "The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This Is Now". You should see a relationship betwwen the what was going on in our country and the social settings she used in the novels.

====On May 4, 1970 a shooting occured in Kent State University that involved the Ohio National Guard. They shot into a crowd and killed four and wounded nine Kent State students. This provoked a nationwide thrust that forecd hunderdeds of colleges and university's to shut down.H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had absolute hit on national politics. Haldeman said that the shootings began to drift in Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration.==== ====This protest began by a group of history students, who had organized the protest, buried a copy of the Constitution, which they claimed had been murdered when US troops were sent into Cambodia without a declaration of war by Congress.==== ====After the shooting the nervous and fearful Guardsmen retreated back to the Commons, facing a large and hostile crowd which realized that the Guard had live ammunition and had used it to kill and wound a large number of people. In their intense anger, many demonstrators were willing to risk their own lives to attack the Guardsmen, and there can be little doubt that the Guard would have opened fire again,==== ====There were many many nation wide effects that happened because of the Kent State shootings. Even more protests and riots happened across the country as a result of the Kent State massacre. It became a symbol of the violation of rights of protesters.==== ====There were two reasons why they shot are the crowd on reason is becausr the Guardsmen fired in self-defense, and the shootings were therefore justified and the second reason why is because the Guardsmen were not in immediate danger, and therefore the shootings were unjustified. They werre also in Fear.The police and firemen at the scene were hit by rocks thrown by students.====



Nice job. 93-CP