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Rebellion and Reaction
Society and Politics, 1960-1980
Challenging the Status Quo
• Boomers• New Left• Counter Culture• Anti-War Movement• Feminism• Chicanismo• AIM• GLF
Port Huron Statement
We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.
Woodstock--1969
Wally Woods’ Disneyland Memorial Orgy in Paul Krassner’s Realist
America’s Finest club an anti-war protester
Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) established the United Farm Workers
Dolores Huerta (b. 1930) organizedGrape Pickers w/ Cesar Chavez
Russell Means talks to reporters at Wounded Knee
Nixon and the Silent Majority
• 1968 Election
• “Peace w/ Honor”—well, the U. S. got out.
• Better relations w/ China and Détente w/ Soviets
• New Federalism
• Stagflation
• Watergate
“A Decent Interval”—abandoning U. S.Operatives in Saigon
Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming . . . . Four Dead in Ohio
Nixon with Zhou Enlai
Watergate Hotel
Gerald Rudolph Ford
• Rampant Inflation
• SALT II negotiations
• Mayaguez incident
• Nixon Pardon
• 1976 Election
A Ford, not a Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
• Fuel shortages/inflation
• Failure of Salt II
• Panama Canal Treaty
• Camp David Accords
• Iranian Hostage Crisis
Sadat, Begin, and Carter
Disco and Leisure Suits
Gas the 70s’ Generation—please!
Lounge Lizard Wannabe