1970s

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?

  by Kate L. Flach

  The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  98/15/2021
  

  Edsall: Abortion Has Always Been Part of Broader Politics

  Thomas Edsall draws on the work of historians Katherine Stewart, Randall Balmer, Jefferson Cowie and Darren Dochuk, plus other scholars, to argue that the "right to life" movement grew from the movement of resistance to school integration and today is sustained by politics of masculinity. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  The 70s are Back, But Not How You Think

  by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

  "In the coronavirus era, disco themes resonate. People long for community and wonder if leaders have our backs. Social media offers some of the trappings that defined disco — from the clothes to the allure of being seen in a new way."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2021
  

  Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind

  "In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/9/2021
  

  Blue Collar Is a Dark Masterpiece of Working-Class Cinema

  The 1978 film "Blue Collar" is an important but overlooked document of a moment of crisis for the American working class. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/23/2021
  

  Revisiting the 1976 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

  The ordeal of 26 children and their school bus driver in California's San Joaquin Valley highlighted the conflicts between rural California and the state's urban centers, class conflict, and the rising fear of crime in 1976. 

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  7/26/2021
  

  The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76

  by Jason Tebbe

  As the national bicentennial approached, a group of New Left activists formed the People's Bicentennial Commission and adopted the symbols of the nation's founding to challenge the domination of the rich.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  2/16/2021
  

  How White Liberals Destroyed the 1970s’ Soul City

  by Brentin Mock

  The new book "Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia," by Seton Hall Law School professor Thomas Healy, explores the history of how and why Floyd McKissick’s experiment came to be, and its unceremonious end. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/7//2020
  

  Getting to Freedom City (Review)

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/21/2020
  

  ‘In a Perfectly Just Republic,’ Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President

  by Pamela S. Nadell

  A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Bella Savitzky Abzug stood on the front lines protesting injustices that still roil this nation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican (Review)

  Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" which proves heated social divisions--stoked and exploited by politicians--are nothing new. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/vale
  

  Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol

  Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/21/2020
  

  A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.

  The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/17/2020
  

  The Rape Kit’s Secret History

  This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2020
  

  Rhody McCoy, Key Figure in New York’s School Wars, Dies at 97

  McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/9/2020
  

  'Mrs. America' Makes the Case for Messy History

  In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity.

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• SOURCE: Chattanooga Times-Free PRess
  5/5/2020
  

  Will Atlanta Child Murders Ever be Solved? Those Close to Case Fear Answer is 'No'

  "Atlanta's Murdered and Missing" concluded Sunday with strong evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in the killings and the disappearances. Families of victims still despair of closure and justice.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  5/4/2020
  

  On the 50th Anniversary, America’s Still not Fully Recovered from the Wounds of Kent State

  by Will Bunch

  Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/17/2020
  

  We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America

  The striking new Hulu miniseries "Mrs. America" reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  4/8/2020
  

  Mrs. America Conjures Up the Messy History of 1970s Feminism—and Anti-Feminism

  Mrs. America doesn’t dwell just on Phyllis Schlafly. An ensemble series, it gathers an array of compelling women who’ve never quite gotten their due in history books, let alone had a prestige TV series devoted to them.