1. New Left, New Conservatism

2. New Left Contrasts with “Old Left”
Socialists, Communists (1930s- 1940s)
New Deal Democrats
Government programs to address poverty

3. “New Left” Constituents
Students for a Democratic Society
Anti-war, including Cold War foreign policy
Port Huron Statement (1962)
College Students—UC Berkeley
Inspired and radicalized by the Civil Rights movement
SDS,
led by
Tom Hayden

4. Young Americans For Freedom
Countered SDS
Defended free enterprise
Supported Vietnam War
Sharon Statement (1960)
Criticized big government

5. Counterculture Third group—overlapped with New Left, but not the same
Hippies
Drugs—marijuana, LSD
1967—”Summer of Love”
Flower Children
1969—Woodstock (concert)
San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury); NYC (Greenwich Village)
Folk Music
Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
Beatles
Inspired Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors

6. 1968! January 30—Tet Offensive
March 31—Johnson announces he will not run for reelection
April 4—Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Riots
June 5—Assassination of Robert Kennedy
August—Democratic National Convention
Chicaco (“Siege of Chicago”)
Youth International Party (“Yippies”)—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin
Police vs. Protesters
Hubert Humphrey nominated

7. Republican Response
Richard Nixon—Republican nominee
Appeals to “Silent Majority”
Taxpayers, not protesters
Against anti-war movement
George Wallace, governor of AL, runs for president as a segregationist.
Doesn’t win, but pushes Republicans toward issue of “law and order,” and against welfare liberal elitism
Two demographic groups leave Democrats and join Republicans
Northern working-class
Southern Democrats
“Tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans —I ask for your support.”

8. Women’s Movement Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Women seek more than to be wives, mothers, homemakers
“Women’s Lib”
Represented by Gloria Steinem, Ms. magazine
At first, in opposition to NOW (Betty Friedan’s National Organization of Women), but later they worked together
More radical protesters
Introduced concepts like sexism and male chauvinism
Women of color struggled for rights within the civil rights movement, but did not join the women’s lib movement in large numbers
Phyllis Schlafly
Conservative Founder of Eagle Forum
Opposed Equal Rights Amendment

9. Women’s Rights: Legislation and Judicial Decisions
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965):
Sup. Ct. ruled that married people had the right to use birth control; contraceptives were previously outlawed or restricted.
Equal Rights Amendment
Passed House and Senate in 1972
35 states ratified; 38 needed
Deadline set for 1982; ratification failed
Title IX—Gender equality in schools and women’s sports (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973):
Legalized abortion