{"id":39,"date":"2010-10-31T20:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:43:27","slug":"the-1960s-political-and-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2010\/10\/the-1960s-political-and-constitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1960s: Political and Constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next three weeks will look at the 1960s (and early 1970s) from three different perspectives. This week, we&#8217;ll look at the gaining momentum for school desegregation and the long-overdue but slow dismantling of Jim Crow legislation in the 1950s&#8211;and the constitutional conflicts that momentum provoked. On Wednesday and Friday we&#8217;ll look at the domestic policy agenda, and mixed achievements, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2K8Q3cqGs7I\">Kennedy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbjlib.utexas.edu\/johnson\/media\/daisyspot\/\">Johnson<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99442205\">administrations<\/a>. For this week, read Chapters 33 and 34. Since there&#8217;s no assigned reading for Friday the 5th, use that as a day to catch up on any missed reading and to review the postwar era so far (Chapters 29-34). <\/p>\n<p>All of this will be essential background and overview for next week, when we look closely at the leaders, organizations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk\">events<\/a> and strategies of 1960s civil rights movements, and for the week after&#8211;a look at the tormented era of the Vietnam War, the turbulent end of the 1960s, and the Watergate crisis that ended Nixon&#8217;s presidency (Chapter 35). <\/p>\n<p>The unit exam will be Monday, 11\/22, covering Chapters 29-35. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next three weeks will look at the 1960s (and early 1970s) from three different perspectives. This week, we&#8217;ll look at the gaining momentum for school desegregation and the long-overdue but slow dismantling of Jim Crow legislation in the 1950s&#8211;and the constitutional conflicts that momentum provoked. On Wednesday and Friday we&#8217;ll look at the domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","category-news","tag-fall10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}