johnson social policy

What major feminist civil rights organization was created in 1966 with Betty Friedan serving as its first president?

The National Organization for Women (NOW).

Which landmark federal legislation banned workplace discrimination against women, despite an ironic attempt by Dixiecrats to sabotage the bill?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What did the Supreme Court rule regarding reproductive rights in the 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut?

It ruled that states could not legally prevent married women from accessing or using the contraceptive pill.

What federal action did President Johnson take in 1968 to improve employment opportunities for women?

He signed an executive order extending federal affirmative action protections to women.

Which 1965 mainstream media advertisement reinforced traditional gender roles by exclusively portraying a woman cooking and cleaning?

Life Magazine's advertisement for stomach acid medication.

What radical 1967 feminist book written by Valerie Solanas controversially declared men to be a "genetic deficiency"?

The S.C.U.M. Manifesto.

What famous direct action protest was staged by 200 radical feminists in 1968 against unrealistic beauty standards?

The Miss America protest (where items associated with traditional femininity were burned).

How did the average age of student school-leaving change between 1945 and 1970?

The average student remained in formal education until age 18 rather than leaving at age 14.

How many major student protest demonstrations occurred across American universities in the first half of 1968 alone?

221 major protests.

How many protesters did the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) assemble in Washington D.C. to oppose the Vietnam War in 1965?

25,000 strong protest.

What local anti-war event in California was escalated by the SDS into direct skirmishes with the police in 1967?

Oakland's "Stop the War Week."

What percentage of the total American student population actually identified with the socialist New Left during the late 1960s?

Only 12% of American students.

What alternative underground newspaper was established by the hippie counterculture in 1964 to challenge contemporary morality?

The Los Angeles Free Press.

What counterculture event in 1966 saw 6,000 hippies openly celebrate drug usage by drinking LSD-spiked punch?

A Grateful Dead concert.

Which San Francisco neighborhood became the primary geographic hub for the hippie movement, drawing 15,000 relocations in 1966?

Haight-Ashbury.

What massive 1967 counterculture event served as the peak of the hippie movement, drawing 100,000 youth to San Francisco?

The Summer of Love.

Which Harvard academic encouraged hippies to use psychedelic drugs, inadvertently contributing to the rise of crime in Haight-Ashbury?

Timothy Leary.

What was the purpose of the symbolic "Death of the Hippie" mock funeral event staged in San Francisco in 1967?

To urge hippies to return to their home communities and spread the counterculture message locally.

What political slogan did hippies adopt when they shaved and cut their hair to support anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy in 1968?

"Get clean for Gene."

What radical, activism-focused counterculture group splintered off to form their own political identity in 1967?

The Youth International Party (known as the "Yippies").

What high-profile anti-war action did 3,000 Yippies take in 1968, resulting in 38 arrests?

They occupied Grand Central Station in New York.

What satirical candidate did the Youth International Party nominate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination?

A pig named "Pigasus the Immortal."

Where and when did the first high-profile public draft card burning protest take place against the Vietnam War?

In New York's Central Park in 1964 (by 12 protesters).

What record number of military draft cards were burned across the United States in a single day on October 16, 1967?

1,400 draft cards.

Which Chicago mayor deployed 12,000 police officers to suppress violent anti-war riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention?

Mayor Richard Daley.

On what grounds did heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali famously refuse the military draft in 1966?

On the basis of systemic racial discrimination inside the United States.

What percentage of the primary vote did anti-war Democrat Eugene McCarthy win in New Hampshire, severely weakening LBJ's political position?

41% of the vote.

How did American television ownership rates change between the Korean War and the Vietnam War of the 1960s?

Ownership rates skyrocketed from just 10% of Americans having television access to 90%.

Which legendary CBS news anchor dealt a devastating blow to public support for the war by reporting in 1968 that the conflict had become a stalemate?

Walter Cronkite.