Since the 1930’s, Modern Liberalism, exemplified in FDR’s New Deal, has brought about great change to the United States through student activism and supreme court rulings. However the conservative backlash that was sparked in 1970’s that continues to this day can be famously summed up with the words of Ronald Reagan “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left me.” As Conservatives grew more hesitant of presidential leadership in a political system that had grown vastly, Liberals had become more aware of discrimination and inequality in American society, and tried to find ways to establish meaningful equality. President Franklin D. Roosevelt increased the role of the Federal government by addressing the nation’s problems with policies
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Meanwhile the Civil Rights movement was spurred on as Liberals reinforced their commitment to racial and religious toleration. Black soldiers returned home determined to secure respect if not equality, while many Americans recoiled from the monstrous acts forced upon the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs. Isaac Woodard’s attack galvanized the Civil Rights Movement by sparking national outrage thus it became a time where ethnic, racial and religious discrimination were no longer tolerable or acceptable. President Harry Truman even ordered a federal investigation into the case, and when the sheriff was acquitted by an all white jury, Truman established a committee in civil rights which spurred a civil rights bill in 1948 and Executive Order 9981 that ended racial segregation in the armed forces. Soon the Warren Court took control, questioning the legitimacy of separate but equal school in cases like Sweatt v. Painter (in 1950), and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (in 1950). The rulings focused on a key idea, that separation denied black students the benefit of integration with their white colleagues, stigmatizing them and increasing the difficulty of their studies. The Warren Court was able to conclude that racially separated facilities could never really be equal in the case of …show more content…
With the Presidential Election of Republican Ronald Reagan to office, there begins a political program that discredits many of the liberal policies enacted. This revitalized constitutional conservatism, criticizing liberalism’s stress on “affirmative action,” the busing of children and Roe v Wade. Resentment had spread beyond the South, people in many parts of the country reacted angrily to these court decisions, calling for judicial restraint and original intent. Americans ready for a change and voted for a Reagan Revolution to “reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon
Meanwhile the Civil Rights movement was spurred on as Liberals reinforced their commitment to racial and religious toleration. Black soldiers returned home determined to secure respect if not equality, while many Americans recoiled from the monstrous acts forced upon the Jews, Gypsies and Slavs. Isaac Woodard’s attack galvanized the Civil Rights Movement by sparking national outrage thus it became a time where ethnic, racial and religious discrimination were no longer tolerable or acceptable. President Harry Truman even ordered a federal investigation into the case, and when the sheriff was acquitted by an all white jury, Truman established a committee in civil rights which spurred a civil rights bill in 1948 and Executive Order 9981 that ended racial segregation in the armed forces. Soon the Warren Court took control, questioning the legitimacy of separate but equal school in cases like Sweatt v. Painter (in 1950), and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (in 1950). The rulings focused on a key idea, that separation denied black students the benefit of integration with their white colleagues, stigmatizing them and increasing the difficulty of their studies. The Warren Court was able to conclude that racially separated facilities could never really be equal in the case of …show more content…
With the Presidential Election of Republican Ronald Reagan to office, there begins a political program that discredits many of the liberal policies enacted. This revitalized constitutional conservatism, criticizing liberalism’s stress on “affirmative action,” the busing of children and Roe v Wade. Resentment had spread beyond the South, people in many parts of the country reacted angrily to these court decisions, calling for judicial restraint and original intent. Americans ready for a change and voted for a Reagan Revolution to “reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon