THIS FAR AND NO FURTHER
A Timeline of Events Surrounding the Radical Right's Attempt to Subvert American Democracy
Written and Compiled by Black Max
1971-1979:
Early 1970s
- Triggered in part by a number of Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s and 70s that prohibited organized school prayers, limited what government could do in support of religious organizations, and federal support for abortion rights, along with the 1973 presentation to the states of the Equal Rights Amendment, the '70s sees an openly religious backlash against what is broadly painted as "secular humanism" and generally licentious and irreligious attitudes among governmental officials and ordinary citizens. Outcries about sex and nudity in movies and TV programming flourish, challenges to lyrics of certain rock songs will be mounted, and a Mississippi minister, Donald Wildmon, achieves national prominence with his Coalition for Better Television and its quest to purify the nation's airwaves. (Kevin Phillips)
