U8 - Liberty & Order, 1945-1980

Student Resources

Foreign Policy: State Department's Short History pages can be helpful in reviewing foreign policy. See "Containment and Cold War, 1945-1961" and "Superpowers Collide, 1961-1981"

• Yalta & Potsdam - see if you find this comparison from the BBC helpful or this source with documents
• Korean War: CBS News Korean War Timeline (also saved as a PDF in the Student Resources folder)
• JFK Inaugural Address audio only, or video & transcript
• Vietnam War: Timeline from PBS (and our compilation of events 1964-1969), the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, draft & deferments information and US government official site on the Vietnam era draft, and the Bill of Rights Institute's War Powers Act history
• Antiwar Movement: SDS "Five Questions Answered" from Smithsonian Magazine & the Port Huron Statement at 50 NYTimes story, and longer Michael Kazin Dissent story, Paul Potter's "The Incredible War Vietnam"

Herblock cartoons on the Library of Congress website covering this history

Civil Rights Movements

• WWII era Black Civil Rights Movement presentation
• Freedom Rides maps showing the many routes taken & showing key events
• Emmett Till case reopened, Carolyn Bryant says she lied about what had happened
• PBS Jim Crow Voting Laws simulation *WARNING OF DISTURBING IMAGES* (from the website companion to the film The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow)
  • to hear more about restrictions on voting rights, go to the BackStory podcast and find the November 30, 2018, edition "Short Take: A History of Rigged Elections" and begin listening at 5:20 (and listen for about 3 minutes)
  • LBJ's speech on Voting Rights - and its dramatic acme with "We shall overcome" (full text here)
• Voices of the Civil Rights Movement podcast (from The Washington Post)
• Chicano Movement - if interested, listen to a podcast about the 1969 Blowouts from Latino USA
• American Indian Movement (AIM) - Alcatraz Proclamation & Letter, Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper
• Women's Movement presentation, packet of related (pro/anti) documents, and historical overview of it as a "long" movement, NOW Statement of Purpose & Bill of Rights
  • 2020 update on the Equal Rights Amendment after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, reaching the 3/4 threshold many years after the expiration built into the amendment itself
  • and the National Archives' information about the process of certifying an amendment & why it is not certifying the ERA (includes the relevant statute and links to pending lawsuits)

Elections and Party Politics

• 1964 LBJ ad against Goldwater that terrified the nation
• Election Maps from Reconstruction & 1960-1992, showing the change in the political parties' appeal in different regions, and NYTimes' story showing 50 years of maps starting with the 1964 Election
• 1968 Democratic Primary & Convention - this story focusing on Eugene McCarthy helps underscore how divided the party was prior to and at the Convention

Deerfield connections to Civil Rights Movement (newspaper clippings found via Library's Historical Newspapers service):

• Deerfield resident jailed trying to integrate lunch counter in Mississippi (& where he lived: 1601 Montgomery)
• Housing: 1959 KKK cross story, 1966 story of a black family renting a place driven out by vandalism (mentions John Foster), April 1968 LBJ signs Fair Housing Act (2 min clip), May 1968 Deerfield narrowly passed Open Housing ordinance (mayor broke tie)

Conservative Movement resources: (This topic is moved to Unit 9 - so 29c&d will be on that unit instead)

• Heritage Foundation's historical overview in PDF format and on their website
• reflection on the life and influence of Russell Kirk, a leading Conservative
• current event link: NYTimes analysis of conservative activists' role in the current era of judicial appointments https://nyti.ms/2nDbryT
• Great Society -
  • 1965 LBJ Howard University Address
  • the 1965 Immigration (Hart-Cellar) Act background from Smithsonian Institute and impact of by the Migration Policy Institute