The 1970s had increasing nonviolent activity (Civil Disobedience). In 1971, the Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing as a legitimism and sometimes necessary tool to achieve desegregation and integration. But, the court does not rule on segregation in public schools in northern states where it is mot imposed by statute. In 1973, congress passes Section 504 of the Vocation Rehabilitation Act barring discrimination against disabled people with use of federal funds. In June of 1973, Keyes v. School District No. 1 Denver Colorado, the Supreme Court addresses issue of school desegregation in northern public schools. The supreme courts finds segregation intentionally imposed unconstitutional even when
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In 1978, the Supreme Court, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case, upholds the principle of affirmative action but rejects fixed racial quotas as unconstitutional. The case involves Alan Bakke, who was denied a slot at the University of California medical school at Davis. Bakke claims he is victim of reverse discrimination because a minority student, with lower test scores, was admitted instead on affirmative action grounds (Civil Rights 101). The people who were against the civil rights movement, who wanted Whites to be the master race, had their own movement called "the New Right". Their movement was made to overturn the gains of the 1960s, they spent millions of dollars on advertising and political campaign. "The New Right" pushed for a different kind of freedom, instead of equality for blacks, they sought freedom for American businesses. "The New Right" had four main goals, the first was to have complete freedom to make money through businesses. This included the freedom to exploit their workers and pollute the environment. The second goal was to get rid of public property, such as public parks and …show more content…
Reagan spent one trillion dollars on military. The largest peace-time military spending in history. By the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, most of the victories made in the 1960s were overturned (Barrett). Reagan and "The New Right" supported neoliberalism. In the 1970s, western governments, academia, and media understood relationship between state and market according to the same liberal consensus in WWII. The "Golden Age of Capitalism" government, capital, and labor had reached uneasy agreement that markets produced social ruin when left to their own devices. The state needed to mitigate inequality to provide basic services and to even out capitalism's boom-bust cycle. "Neoliberalism" was first used by interwar continental, economists, and philosophers. "Neoliberalism" was used to describe an economic doctrine that favors privatization, deregulation, and unfettered free markets over public institutions and government. Some people saw that "neo" signals a liberalism shorn of many of the features that made classical liberalism plausible and effective. There were two popular accounts of how this philosophy of free markets and minimal government came to determine the economic policies of the
In 1978, the Supreme Court, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case, upholds the principle of affirmative action but rejects fixed racial quotas as unconstitutional. The case involves Alan Bakke, who was denied a slot at the University of California medical school at Davis. Bakke claims he is victim of reverse discrimination because a minority student, with lower test scores, was admitted instead on affirmative action grounds (Civil Rights 101). The people who were against the civil rights movement, who wanted Whites to be the master race, had their own movement called "the New Right". Their movement was made to overturn the gains of the 1960s, they spent millions of dollars on advertising and political campaign. "The New Right" pushed for a different kind of freedom, instead of equality for blacks, they sought freedom for American businesses. "The New Right" had four main goals, the first was to have complete freedom to make money through businesses. This included the freedom to exploit their workers and pollute the environment. The second goal was to get rid of public property, such as public parks and …show more content…
Reagan spent one trillion dollars on military. The largest peace-time military spending in history. By the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, most of the victories made in the 1960s were overturned (Barrett). Reagan and "The New Right" supported neoliberalism. In the 1970s, western governments, academia, and media understood relationship between state and market according to the same liberal consensus in WWII. The "Golden Age of Capitalism" government, capital, and labor had reached uneasy agreement that markets produced social ruin when left to their own devices. The state needed to mitigate inequality to provide basic services and to even out capitalism's boom-bust cycle. "Neoliberalism" was first used by interwar continental, economists, and philosophers. "Neoliberalism" was used to describe an economic doctrine that favors privatization, deregulation, and unfettered free markets over public institutions and government. Some people saw that "neo" signals a liberalism shorn of many of the features that made classical liberalism plausible and effective. There were two popular accounts of how this philosophy of free markets and minimal government came to determine the economic policies of the