Extreme Makeover Home Edition Gilbert Az

Posted on December 09, 2011 by Admin
Extreme Makeover Home Edition Gilbert Az

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Gilbert Az

While the common image of '60s youth activism is of anti-war protesters and the Civil Rights marches, a great many students took an opposite track. This article examines the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), the largest and most vocal right-wing student group of the '60s and a major player in the Conservative movement.

Prelude to YAF

The youth conservative movement began with William F. Buckley's 1951 book, God and Man at Yale: The Superstition of "Academic Freedom". Buckley's book attacked an academic system he saw as indoctrinating students with left-wing beliefs. An immediate best-seller, Buckley's book raised the curtain on a decade of right-wing campus rebellion.

Throughout the '50s, conservative activism flourished across American colleges. Angry at perceived liberal dominance of education, media and government, and frustrated with the lassitude of traditional conservatives, the young conservatives fashioned themselves anti-Establishment rebels: "Conformity is liberalism. Conservatism is insurrection," wrote Indianapolis Star journalist and conservative organizer M. Stanton Evans. Student protests against left-wing professors and in support of HUAC-sponsored loyalty oaths raged in the late '50s, and 50,000 members attended to the Republican National Convention, hoping to draft Barry Goldwater for President (Evans 96).