US History › Section O · The 1960s and 1970s › Topic O.5
Rights movements and a divided society
From the late 1960s, Native Americans, gay and lesbian Americans and women built movements around shared identities, while a counterculture rejected mainstream values altogether. The same divisions shattered the Democrats in 1968 and gave Richard Nixon a presidency marked by economic trouble at home and bold diplomacy abroad.
In this topic
- A fractured society
- Hippies and the counterculture
- American Indian activism
- Worked example: reading the Alcatraz Proclamation
- Gay rights
- Feminism in the 1970s
- 1968: the Democrats divide
- Worked example: why the New Deal coalition cracked
- Nixon at home
- Nixon the diplomat
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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