HIST2475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Left-Wing Politics, Tom Hayden
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The american home front from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s is a new terrain to the principal policy makers at this time. Paul goodman: (cid:498)this america is so much different than the america of my youth (cid:523)(cid:883)9(cid:887)(cid:882)s(cid:524). (cid:499) Astonishingly complex movement that brought together the young and old, democrats and maoists, pacifists and street fighters, etc. Parades, bombings, writings, trips to vietnam, throwing feces at police officers. Never before and never since have there been people who are defying authority in such various ways. A kid from an affluent family and went to yale burned his draft card in front of the supreme court-inconceivable action in the 1950-60s. The (cid:888)(cid:882)"s can"t be considered as a self-sustained unit that is distinctly different from that of the (cid:887)(cid:882)"s and (cid:889)(cid:882)"s. The 50s are presented in black and white, the 60s are presented in color.
