Rosie the riveter 1943
Publication of The Brief Case 1955 The Bar Association of San Francisco: Carole Conn
ping out,” Vietnam, drugs, “free love,” the demand for equal rights and opportunity, protest and unrest, and the large histories within each of these subject head- ings pushed a colossal break from societal norms as we knew them. Television brought life images into every living room. Freeways replaced railways. The “atomic age” was spawned with the dropping of atomic bombs to end the second war of the world.
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Jack Kerouac coined the term Beat Generation in 1948 and the “baby-boomers” were born. As they grew into adulthood, the real median income (adjusted after in- fl ation) grew 80 percent for all classes of U.S. citizens from 1947 to 1977. Other wars started, but in far- away, less familiar places, a soldierless cold war frosted the geopolitical landscape. Three men set foot on the moon. The sweater-girl fashions of Jane Russell yielded to poodle skirts, miniskirts, bell-bottoms, and the pant- suit, and hair grew long, frizzy, or “afro.” The “rocked”
he years between 1942 and 1976 rep- resented a period of tremendous cul- tural and social change that moved the twentieth century solidly into the modern era. The racial ques- tion, feminism, civil rights, “drop-
nation listened to faster and bolder rhythms, from jazz to rockabilly, rock and roll, folk rock, and punk rock. Historic civil rights legislation and Supreme Court de- cisions, made and implemented at the cost of human lives, removed laws of oppression.
Much like the changes that characterize this period, BASF increasingly focused on legal issues affecting or- dinary citizens and the courts, looking to lead a genera- tion of lawyers toward the pursuits of equal opportuni- ty, civil rights for all, and public service. While still an association devoted to cultivating the fellowship of its members, BASF became more proactive in its support- ing role to the judiciary, public interest, women, mi- norities, and adequate legal service to the community.
Our time period begins in 1942, just after the Unit- ed States had declared war on Japan and expanded its support of the Allies with U.S.-led attacks by air, sea, and land. In 1943 as the Allies intensifi ed their offensive, BASF strongly objected to the creation of what it termed kangaroo courts formed by the Offi ce of Price Administration (OPA) to prosecute violators of the nation’s rationing laws. BASF denounced the OPA courts, charging that they were “illegal and violated
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