Rebellion and Reaction

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Rebellion and Reaction

• I. Liberalism
• A. Postwar bargain
• B. Criminal justice
• II. Rebellion
• A. Long Hot Summers
• B. Draft resistance
• C. Counterculture
• III. Reaction
• A. Chicago, 1968
• B. Attica
• C. Law and Order Politics
• IV. Reversal
• A. Corruption
• B. Watergate

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Liberal Bargain

• Welfare state
• Gradual civil rights
• IN RETURN FOR
• Anti-communism
• Red-baiting
• Korea, Vietnam
• Conscription
• Cultural conformity
• Universal white male subject
• Traditional family
• Suburbs, consumerism
• Stable social order

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Criminal Justice Battles
?Warren court
Birmingham, Alabama police storming civil rights
protesters, 1963?
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Long Hot Summers

• 1964
• Harlem riot
• 1 dead, hundreds injured
• 1966
• SNCC rejects non-violence
• Watts riot
• 16,000 guardsmen called
• 34 dead, over 1000 wounded
• 1967
• Detroit riot
• 43 killed
• 1,189 injured
• 7,231 arrested
• 1968
• MLK shot
• Nationwide riots
• Kerner Commission

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Draft Resistance

• Student deferments
• Hardship deferments
• Physical Deferments
• Tricks
• Conscientious Objectors
• Flee to Canada
• 20K men indicted

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Counterculture

• Music
• Drugs

Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965)

• Sex
• Style

Beatles, Revolver (1966)
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Democratic Convention of 1968

• Peace v. War
• Sen. Eugene McCarthy v. Sen. Hubert Humphrey
• Protestors v. Establishment
• Mayor Richard Daley
• Royko Police riot

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Prison riots

• Attica explodes, 1971
• Prisoners take hostages
• Gov. Nelson Rockefeller sends in state police

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Law and Order

• 1972 Presidential campaign
• Drug Enforcement Administration, 1973
• Rockefeller drug laws, NY, 1973

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Reversal

• Corruption
• Spiro Agnew pleads no contest to taking bribes
• Ethics
• Watergate break-in
• Obstruction
• Cover up
• Circumvention
• Nixon resigns
• Im not a crook
• Ford pardons
• Ford names Rockefeller VP