Professor Altenbernd
History 22
Final Paper
16 December 2015
Final Paper During the late 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement, women’s right, hippies, the counterculture and the sexual revolution. Lastly, the high rising crime rates amount a number of the Americans. I have chosen the film Dirty Harry, a movie that was produced in 1971, the movie discuses the conflict of a police officer who is trying to caught the killer, but at the same time he is frustrated with the law, and the constitutional rights. The first outside source, “Grand Expectations”, civil rights on African Americans, the backlash of division to class and race, and the polarize the nations. The second outside source, “Restless Giant”, the troubled 1970s, …show more content…
Chapter 21, discuses the civil rights movement, polarization, and backlash. The rights revolution get the special idea from civil right movement, large part of the people support the idea, and they persisted in doing so amid the backlash ensured: the law matters. After 1965, all Americans were less concerned when people talking about the rights and social equality. The polarization in the 1960s, America spend most of the money on military, that’s when they start to worry about the economics, but all this got justified in the 1970s. The white backlash is the white racists against the African American’s civil right movement. In 1960s, LBJ fight for against the white backlash, where he gained most of his reputation among the blacks. And his opponent Goldwater, using race to fight against him, those race include: gender, race, class, and background. There manifestations of backlash- against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favor minorities, elitists, liberals generally- exposed a major development of the mid-1960s: polarization for class, generational, and racial lines. The second outside source, “Restless Giant” by James T Patterson. In 1968, Nixon selected as the president of the United States. Big part of the silent majority for Nixon’s party was the noise of American’s younger people. Also turned out the …show more content…
And someone has to stand up for those people, in the movie was Callahan, but in the real life, president Nixon did his part too. The movie was directly comment on the current event; it was referenced to San Francisco’s famous killer of the late sixties. The movie and the source have an obvious political bias, the movie directly comments to the laws and constitutional rights, and the source are just a checkpoint to justifies the