america at midcentury, 1945 – 1961 chapter 27. 2 readings read the entire chapter. “it would be...
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America at Midcentury,
1945 – 1961
Chapter 27
2
Readings
• Read the entire chapter.
“It would be Un American to not read the entire Chapter.”
Tricky Dick Nixon
3
Introduction
• Jackie Roosevelt Robinson
4
Postwar Jitters
5
Demobilization and Recovery
6
GI Bill of Rights
• GI Bill
7
The Affluent Society
8
The New Industrial Society
9
The Age of Computers
10
The Costs of Bigness
11
Blue-Collar Blues
12
Figure 27.1A: The American Farmer, 1940–1993
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Figure 27.1B: The American Farmer, 1940–1993 (cont’d)
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Prosperity and the Suburbs
15
Suburban America
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Figure 27.2: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Americans, 1940–
1960
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Consensus and Conservation
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Technology and CultureThe Interstate Highway System
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Togetherness, the Baby Boom and Domesticity
• Baby-boom generation
• Dr. Benjamin Spock
20
Religion and Education
• Billy Graham
21
Postwar Culture
22
The Television Culture
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Figure 27.3: The Television Revolution, 1950–1994
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Seeds of Disquiet
25
Stalin Dies
• March 5, 1953
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Sputnik
• Sputnik (Little traveler)
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A Different Beat
• Elvis Presley
28
Portents of Change
29
The Other America
30
Poverty and Urban Blight
31
Latinos and Latinas
• Bracero Program
32
Native Americans
33
Civil Rights Movement
• President’s Committee on Civil Rights
• Earl Warren
• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
• Southern Manifesto
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The Laws of the Land
35
The Brown Decision and the Southern Manifesto
36
Mass Protest in Montgomery
• Rosa Parks
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
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New Tactics for a New Decade
• Freedom Rides
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• (SNCC) “Snick”
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Conclusion