1. The Conservative Revival The most visible result of the turmoil of the 1960s was a new wave of political conservatism in state and national affairs Overwhelmed by rapid increases in the cost of living, voters became increasingly restive under the burden of taxation and resentful of the growth of government Ronald Reagan from Hollywood actor to CA governor

2. Governor Ronal Reagan takes his oath of office in the specially decorated capitol rotunda shortly after midnight, January 2, 1967 Reagan’s left hand is on the 400 year old Bible of Father Junipero Serra, held by CA Senate Chaplain Wilbur Choy In the background is a statue of Queen Isabella of Spain

3. California gubernatorial campaign of 1966 – Reagan (R) vs. Edmund G. Brown (D) As governor, Reagan made drastic cuts in the fields of mental health and higher education Won reelection in 1970, renewed and intensified his calls for “reform” of the welfare system, which to him meant primarily reduction of its cost. He called it “a cancer eating at our vitals” Reagan’s 1974 reelection campaign against Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry Brown)

4. Governor Edmund G. Brown congratulates his son and future governor Jerry Brown at the 1960 commencement exercises of UC Berkeley

5. As the Watergate scandal dominated the headlines, Brown was serving as CA secretary of state and became the principal sponsor of an initiative which created the Fair Political Practices Commission Brown appealed to the strain of antigovernment sentiment potent among voters in the aftermath of Watergate Agricultural Relations Act of 1975 The campaign against and pro Proposition 13

6. Culture and Identity of CA The essence of CA’s artistic identity was rooted in the state’s energizing sense of freedom from prior tradition and constraint California came to be identified with a distinctive flair for openness and irreverence CA Literature - One of the most critical figures among the new CA writers was novelist- essayist Joan Didion

7. Joan Didion (1934- ) in the living room of her Malibu home in 1977

8. Black novelists Al Young and Ishmael Reed Native American writer Gerald Vizenor, a professor of Native American literature at Berkeley his work The Trickster of Liberty (1988) Mexican American writer Jose Antonio Villareal published Pocho (1959), the first novel about Mexican American life written by a Mexican American The most important figure in the emergence of a Mexican American literature was Luis Valdez, a playwright and director

9. A scene from Luis Valdez’s 1981 film Zoot Suit, starring Edward James Olmos as El Pachuco

10. Reflecting the constant movement of people into California, a recurring theme in the state’s literature Asian American writer Maxine Hong Kingston narrative explored both her childhood memories of growing up in the family laundry in Stockton and the customs, traditions, and fables of village life in China Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989) Farewell to Manzanar (1973), written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her husband, James D. Houston