R. Cobb Cartoon
Police Brutality
This cartoon features a middle-aged white male stating, "I've lived in this city for over 40 years... and never once have I been brutalized by the police." The cartoon, suggests the gulf between black and white experiences with police, which undergirds the law and order politics of the 1970s.
R. Cobb
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970s
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Niagara Liberation Front: Program for Action
New Left
This booklet serves as a manifesto and platform for the Niagara Liberation Front, a radical organization based in Buffalo, New York. The twelve points articulated in their platform, include:
1. We Shall Create Our Revolutionary Culture Everywhere
2. We will fight American Imperialism
3. We Support the Struggle of Black and Other Third World People for Self-Determination
4. We Will Struggle for the Full Liberation of Women as a Necessary Part of the Revolutionary Struggle
5. We Shall Resist the Destruction of Our Physical Environment
6. We Will Turn the High Schools Into Training Grounds for Liberation
7. We Will Destroy the Universities Unless They Serve the People
8. We Will Expand and Protest Our Revolutionary Youth Culture
9. We Will Take Communal Responsibility for Basic Human Needs
10. We Will Support Working People's Struggles Against Oppression
11. We Will Defend Ourselves Against Law and Order
12. All Revolutionaries Are Guided By Feelings of Love
Niagara Liberation Front
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
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Ronald Reagan for Fuehrer
Electoral Politics and Anti-War Movement
Former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, launched his political career in 1966 by targeting University of California-Berkeley's student peace activists, professors, and, to a great extent, the University of California itself. In his successful campaign for governor that year, Reagan championed traditional authority and emphasized two themes, anti-government promises "to send the welfare bums back to work" and “law and order” rhetoric, including assurances "to clean up the mess at Berkeley," where civil rights activism, the Free Speech Movement and growing anti-war demonstrations had roiled the campus and brought national attention the previous year. Reagan strongly attacked student leaders, like Mario Savio, as well as UC President, Clark Kerr, who Reagan perceived as too lenient on campus demonstrators. Once in office after defeating Democratic incumbent, Pat Brown, Reagan directed the UC Board of Regents to dismiss Kerr from his position, cementing a turbulent relationship with the state’s leading institution of higher education, as well as Regan’s reputation as a key conservative opponent of the emerging New Left.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1966
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