HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: United Farm Workers, Voting Rights Act Of 1965, National Labor Relations Act
28 Aug 2015
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Both left and right became increasingly politicized as private issues private issue became public people looked to states to guarantee individual rights. In new deal, some discussion of rights right of collective bargaining wagner act fdr spoke of the 4 freedom, 4th freedom from want opened much wider demand for economic rights open dramatically to civil rights movement. Court were relied on as mean for addressing social discrimination source for protecting the rights of many: right to whiteness: race in the 1970s. Passage of civil rights act of 1964 , voting rights act of 1965 those two basically destroyed. Education seem like a crucial vehicle for writing long term historical wrongs it was great hope for african americans. Policy makers in the 70s increasingly looked to the schools as a vehicle for equalizing opportunity for african americans: desegregation in the south, 1968-1971 (overturning de jure seg. ) Southern public schools were forced by court orders to completely desegregate.
