HIST 12B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Operation Breadbasket, Neoliberalism
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Notes on the project: make sure the introduction is collective. One way to prove it"s collective is: he assumes we have differing opinions mention the oppositions and variations in opinion! Reagan"s election in 1980 was something of a thunderbolt it inspired many of these movements. His election mobilized many activists to think of independent parties and challenge the democratic party. The precedent for the jackson campaign was this woman, shirley chisholm. She was a precursor not to only jackson, but to bernie sanders. She fought for worker"s rights, for health care, expanding welfare benefits. She fought to end the vietnam war, repeal the draft, and for amnesty for all draft resistors. And decreasing military spending linked a decrease to improving the us economy. March on washington for jobs, peace, and freedom august 27, 1983. This march wasn"t just commemoration it was a massive protest against reagan"s policies. Organized by the congressional black caucus, and coretta scott-king"s coalition of.
