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Urban Unrest / Silent Majority

Urban Unrest / Silent Majority. 1960s Urban Unrest. Suburbanization Economic inequality Urban riots—Harlem, Los Angeles, Detroit Kerner Commission, 1968 “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” Calls for more federal programing

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Urban Unrest / Silent Majority

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  1. Urban Unrest/Silent Majority

  2. 1960s Urban Unrest • Suburbanization • Economic inequality • Urban riots—Harlem, Los Angeles, Detroit • Kerner Commission, 1968 • “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” • Calls for more federal programing • Johnson can’t, Nixon won’t

  3. Watts Riots, 1965

  4. The Silent Majority • “Silent majority” • Reaction to: New Deal, Civil Rights, Great Society, 1960s urban unrest, and immigration • One example: • Busing and ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights) • Boston, 1974-1976 • Richard Nixon, 1968-1974

  5. Boston, 1976

  6. Boston, 1970s

  7. New York, 1975

  8. Richard Nixon, 1968-1974

  9. Anti War Rally, 1969

  10. Economic Issues: 1970s • End of American capitalism’s “golden age” • Flight of manufacturing • 1973 oil embargo • “Stagflation”—economic growth slows, unemployment high • “Misery index”—inflation rate + unemployment • Tax revolt

  11. 1980s and Reagan • Reaganomics • Cuts taxes • Union busting • Repeals environmental protections

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