Introduction to Chapter 28
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REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION
1960–1974[[LP Photo: detail of black power salute UTAP CO ONLY/
> How did protest movements change policies and society in the 1960s and 1970s? Chapter 28 examines the efforts to reform and transform American society in the 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the domestic agenda of Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, the role of the Supreme Court, and the evolution of the black freedom movement. The chapter also examines other movements inspired by the struggle for black civil rights, the backlash against reform, and the transformation of the liberal agenda under President Richard M. Nixon.
> What liberal reforms were advanced during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?
> How did the civil rights movement evolve in the 1960s?
> What other rights movements emerged in the 1960s?
> What were the goals of the new wave of feminism?
> How did liberalism fare under President Nixon?
> Conclusion: What were the achievements and limitations of liberalism?
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