Holding to Social Justice: The Progressive Party's Response to Cold War Liberalism

This presentation redefines the Progressive Party (1948) movement by examining its local foundations in Los Angeles.  It demonstrates the complexities within the progressive liberal opposition to the post-war consensus.  The paper argues that the Progressives’ response to the cold war embodied more than a critique of United States foreign policy; it constituted a broad agenda for social, economic, and political change.