HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Seneca Falls Convention, Gay Liberation, Equal Rights Amendment

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 351
• Professor: Leonard Moore

Document Summary

Part ii of the course: rights of citizenship, 1960 to the 1990s. 1964: newspaper columnists wondered if liberalism had achieved such a consensus in. American life that perhaps the republican party might dissolve or disappear. Southern strategy adapted: republicans brought into the fold the white southerners that were upset at the civil rights movements and how they believed it was affecting white people, a profound change was happening here. Militant black power movement was taking place at this point as well and they were taking center stage. Race relations changed in the 1960s and this changed the political culture in the us. This conflict/blowback/uprising against what the crm and what flowed out of it. Counter revolution taking place would define american politics starting in the 1970s, clarified in 1980s, until the present. Other groups, other americans, in addition to aas, would continue to press for equality and justice in american society.