Category Archives: Week 8: Youth and Anti-War Movement

During the 1960s and early 1970s, both George Wallace and Richard Nixon adroitly exploited the tensions between the so-called “Elite doves,” or the upper class, and the “reactionary hardhats,” or the working class, for their political advantage. In the chapter “Hardhats Versus Elite Doves” by Penny Lewis, it is stated that these were the feelingsContinue reading “Class Divide in America during the Vietnam War Era”