With the slogan �Power is in the Streets� a new culture of liberation took hold in Chicago, driven by the energy of young activists, often veterans of the Civil Rights movement. The multiplying conflicts they addressed�the war in Vietnam, sexism, gay rights, homelessness, and police brutality�created a social and political ferment that to many seemed revolutionary.
In the context of the Cold War, those who opposed these new social movements often equated them with communism. But, the new politics of liberation aimed to overcome the limiting politics of both American democracy and Soviet communism. Like the activists of the nineteenth century, those of the late twentieth century expanded the definitions of human rights.
