RECREARTE PROJECT IS WORKING ON THE 60s.
In 2nd bto, they are collecting family photos that testify what we were doing at that moment in Spain.
Meanwhile, here you are some facts that have been found out by Ana Saez-Benito from 2nd CIT:
Where were you in the 60s?
The 60s was a period of revolution, of civil protests and innovations. A trademark of the 60s is,
without any trace of doubt, the hippie culture. The hippie movement began its development in San
Francisco, during the early 1960s as a youth movement, and then it was spread around the world.
Its origins may be traced to European social movements in the 19th and early 20th century such as
Bohemians. Its basis was harmony with nature, communal living, artistic experimentation, and the
widespread use of recreational drugs.
In 1961 the Berlin wall was built, 45 kilometers of concrete, it was a barrier that physically and
ideologically divided Berlin,
In 1962, the Cuban Missile crisis happened. It's also known as the October Crisis, and it was a 13-
day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
concerning the weapon advances. The Americans had some threatening missile bases on Italy, which was one of the closest counties to the USSR.
The USSR threatened then to send missiles to Cuba. Although both
countries decided to make a truce, this confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to becoming a full-scale nuclear war.
Meanwhile in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr, an American civil rights activist, was delivering his famous speech "I Have a Dream".
Fun fact, the mini skirt and the bikini appeared for the first time in the 60s too! And hand in hand
with this new clothes, the feminism movement grew, and women from many countries started
fighting for their rights, as they said, they were "Tired of feeling like nothing". All these women came
together and despite being shut down multiple times with answers like "Cool down, little girl. We
have more important things to do here than talk about women's problems." they did not give up.
On May 1968 the French administration shut down the Sorbonne
University, which led to hundreds of student occupation protests
against the traditional institutions, capitalism, consumerism and
American imperialism. The protesters also wanted to stop the Vietnam War who killed around 5,7 millions of people, ongoing since 1955.
When the Sorbonne reopened, students occupied it and declared it
an autonomous "people's university"
Late in the 60s, on July 20, 1969, the spaceship called Apollo 11 was landing on the Moon, and the mission commander Neil Amstrong was the first man to set foot on the lunar surface. The space race that was taking place between the two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) ended with Armstrong's famous words "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". The whole event was shown on the TV, however, there's still a lot of people who believe the Moon landing was fake, and that it never happened.
On the same year, the LGBT movement started officially in New York, after the fights that had
happened in Stonewall. Stonewall was a gay bar that was taken by the police, and it is considered of
importance because from then on, the people from the LGBT community came together to fight for
their rights. Some of the goals of this moment are to legalize the gay marriage, to be able to adopt
kids and not to be killed because of who they are.
