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