We've spent a lot of time looking at how media images were important in shaping public opinion and the overall course of events in both the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. By the 1970s, these media images had taken on a new dimension. Combined with the actions of the Warren and Burger Court, these images created an environment ripe for backlash politics.
But first, here is the companion site for the Wallace documentary, which you should have viewed by now. It is back up on Blackboard for two more weeks.
Dirty Harry: Do you feel lucky?
Jerry Falwell: Old Time Christian Gospel Hour
The Congress and the Supreme Court were busy trying to address civil liberties, rights, and poverty during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a lot of their actions, however well intentioned, created a great deal of backlash - the sort of backlash you saw in the Wallace video. Here are just a few topics that we will look at
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
The Fair Housing Act (1968)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Title IX (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973) Do I even need a link?
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1974)
Section 8 Vouchers (1974)
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