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APUSH-31-B-3
Resurgence of feminism
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The Subversive Fifties
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Relevant transcripts: Resource Type: Document-Based Question During the 1960s, a series of widely disparate protest movements emerged in the United States. While the antiwar movement directed against U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War appeared to be the most salient, many others as well expressed discontent with American government and society. In this question, students are asked to look at a variety of groups—including women, African Americans, and ethnic minorities—many of whose members felt marginalized or underrepresented, became politically active, and helped to establish social movements dedicated to the advancement of their communities. Students can use these documents to determine the degree to which different groups sought to redefine American democracy and make it more inclusive. Sixties Radicalism and Conservatism Resource Type: Document-Based Question Dissent and social protest characterize the 1960s. Enduring images of the decade recall its civil-rights marches, antiwar protests, and rallies of members of various social grouips—women, farmworkers, American Indians—calling for greater justice. The documents within the DBQ represent a variety of voices, illustrating the tensions between countercultural movements of the 1960s and conservative reactions against them. This DBQ contextualizes the debates of the 1960s within a longer-term analysis of the divisions between left and right in the United States since the beginning of the Cold War. Feminism Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of a 1964 paperback edition of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. This book was first published in 1963. Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Alice Paul, feminist activist (1920). Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Eleanor Roosevelt shakes hands with a resident of a dormitory for black women war workers (1943). Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Women workers were a key force in the effort to win World War II. Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Woman works in her victory garden in Washington, D.C., during World War II. Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Women war worker with child, World War II. Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of a 1961 edition of Baby and Child Care, by Dr. Benjamin Spock. This book was first published as The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care in 1946. Feminism: Two Different Spheres Resource Type: Primary Source Rebel Without A Cause, promotional still. America Since 1945—E-Seminar 4, The Subversive Fifties Resource Type: E-Seminar In The Subversive Fifties, the fourth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley discusses a variety of early counterculture movements—literary, social, and environmental—whose origins date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. He also covers the roots of the civil-rights movement, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, in which Martin Luther King Jr. first gained national attention. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. The Feminine Mystique Resource Type: Primary Source Founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Betty Friedan wrote this influential treatise critiquing the loneliness and dissatisfaction felt by many suburban housewives in postwar America. | |
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