american history
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American Portraits: César Chávez
Bill Eppridge, César Chávez, California, 1974.
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César Chávez National Monument, Keene, California, 2012.
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Audience listens to dedication ceremony, César Chávez National Monument, 2012.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Bill Eppridge, César Chávez, California, 1974.
Photograph.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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Into the 1970s
Timeline: The 1970s
The War in Vietnam
Watergate and Political Crisis
Rights Revolution and the 1970s
The Art of Second-Wave Feminism
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1. Timeline: The 1970s
First Earth Day; Environmental Protection Agency established.
U.S. forces bomb and invade Cambodia.
1971 26th Amendment; 18-year olds may vote.
Pentagon Papers leaked to the press.
Nixon visits China and Soviet Union; he is later re-elected president.
Equal Rights Amendment sent to states for ratification..
1973 American withdrawal from Vietnam.
Roe v. Wade establishes women’s constitutional right to abortion.
1974 Watergate hearings lead to Nixon’s resignation; Gerald Ford becomes president amidst recession.
1975 Government in South Vietnam falls.
1976 U.S. Bicentennial; Jimmy Carter elected president.
Accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
Camp David Accords; Carter mediates peace between Egypt and Israel.
Iranian revolution; oil prices go up more than 50 percent. Iranian hostage crisis begins.
Rev. Jerry Falwell established the Moral Majority.
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2. The War in Vietnam
US Marines during Tet Offensive, Vietnam, 1968.
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March on Washington button, 1965.
“The President says that we are defending freedom in Vietnam. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of the Vietnamese . . What has the war done for freedom in America? It has led to even more vigorous governmental effort to control information, manipulate the press and pressure and persuade the public through distorted or downright dishonest documents . . . The President mocks freedom if he insists that the war in Vietnam is a defense of American freedom.”
Paul Potter, SDS President, March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam, April 17, 1965.
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Fighting in north Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, during the Tet offensive, 1968.
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Gordon Parks, Muhammad Ali after the Henry Cooper Fight in London, England, 1966. Photograph.
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John Filo, Anti-War Demonstrator Shot by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, 1970.
Photograph.
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Jimi Hendrix plays a
distorted, anti-war version of
the national anthem at
Woodstock, 1967.
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Leon Golub, Vietnam II, 1973. Acrylic on linen.
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Art Workers Coalition, with photograph by Ronald Haeberle, Q: And Babies? A. And Babies, 1970.
Offset lithograph.
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3. Watergate and Political Crisis
President Richard Nixon campaigning on Long Island, 1972
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President Richard Nixon’s visit to China, 1972
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Gjon Mili, Ex-White House counsel John Dean with wife Maureen at Watergate hearings, 1973.
Photograph.
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4. The Rights Revolution and the Seventies
Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in new associate justice Thurgood Marshall as President Lyndon B. Johnson looks on, 1967.
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Key Supreme Court Decisions:
New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964 (freedom of the press)
Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 (right to privacy)
Roe v. Wade, 1973 (right to terminate pregnancy)
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The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Alcatraz in 1969.
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Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson in Chico and the Man.
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Judy Baca, section from The Great Wall of Los Angeles, 1976-2001.
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Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex, 1972
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973)
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Ms. Magazine, December 1971
Helen Reddy, “I Am Woman”
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
Cast of One Day at a Time (1975-1984)
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Billie Jean King after defeating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, Houston Astrodome, 1973.
Title IX
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Equal Rights Amendment button and ratification map.
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Equal Rights Amendment opponent Phyllis Schlafly, 1977.
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Virginia Slims print ad, 1977.
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4. The Art of Second-Wave Feminism
Women’s Liberation March, 1970.
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Miriam Schapiro, Anatomy of a Kimono (section), 1976. Fabric collage and acrylic.
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Audrey Flack, Marilyn: Vanitas, 1977.
Oil over acrylic on canvas.
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79.
Painted porcelain and needlework.
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Hannah Wilke, S.O.S. Starification Object Series, 1974-82.
Ten black-and-white photographs with fifteen chewing-gum sculptures.
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