Simon GRIVET - From Berkeley to Watts, Californie between Protest and Conservative Reaction

Pouvoirs n°133 - La Californie - avril 2010 - p.43-55

California in the 1960s underwent a season of discontent which shattered its image of a rich and prosperous State. During the fall of 1964, Berkeley students organized themselves to obtain full freedom of speech on campus. In August 1965, the Afro-American ghetto of Watts in Los Angeles exploded in a very violent riot. Those disorders allowed Ronald Reagan to build a new majority and become governor of California. This scenario was a harbinger of future events on the national level. Résumé

Référence électonique : Simon GRIVET, "From Berkeley to Watts, Californie between Protest and Conservative Reaction", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°133, 2010, p.43-55. Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/From-Berkeley-to-Watts-Californie.html