Monday, November 11, 2013

Missouri: The Heart of the Nation...Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Missouri During the 1980s


-Overview of the Politics in the 1980s
-Elections in the 1980s
-Women and African Americans in Politics
-Education in the 1980s
-The St. Louis and Kansas City Desegregation Cases
-Other Educational Controversies
-The Question of the Right to Life
-The Green Issues
-Difficulties in Environmental Issues
-Gains in the Environmental Movement
-The Missouri Cultural Resource Inventory
-The Missouri Historic Preservation Revolving Fund
-"Breakthrough," November 9, 1990


This chapter gives us a brief overview of some of the major events and movements during the 1980s in Missouri. Controversial issues such as Right to Life and the worldwide "green" movement were felt in Missouri. Missouri has also done a fantastic job of preservation, it is home to 37 National Historic Landmarks and 5 Historic National Park Service areas. Missouri was also the sight of Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" Speech in Fulton. For the people of Southeast Missouri many of these great sites are quite close. St. Louis is home to many of the historic sites along with Ste. Genevieve which has several also.

The Louis Bolduc House in Ste. Genevieve, a National Historic Landmark.
File:A color photograph of the Bolduc House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg

The Ste. Genevieve Historic District is also listed as a National Historic Landmark.
File:Photograph of the Location of the Felix Vallee House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg

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