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American Dissent from 1950-1975

r war as expressions of imperialism. The New Left stressed the moral flaws of the governing system or Establishment. In its November 15, 1957 advertisement in the New York Times, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), stressed "the uneasiness that exists inside America has to do with the fact that we are not living up to our moral capacity in the world" (52). Betty Friedan in her Feminine Mystique said that American women, freed of the drudgery of housework by the new appliances, were faced with a profound void in their lives, the absence of meaning in lives concerned primarily with their roles as wives and mothers. She referred to "the problem that has no name" (72). Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, emphasized the commonality of the threats posed by the system to the aspirations and interests of all oppressed groups, blacks in the South and students on the nation's campuses: "the same rights are at stake in both places --the right to participate by citizens

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