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Page 1: 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

America at Midcentury,

1945 – 1961

Chapter 27

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Readings

• Read the entire chapter.

“It would be Un American to not read the entire Chapter.”

Tricky Dick Nixon

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Introduction

• Jackie Roosevelt Robinson

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Postwar Jitters

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Demobilization and Recovery

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GI Bill of Rights

• GI Bill

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The Affluent Society

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The New Industrial Society

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The Age of Computers

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The Costs of Bigness

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Blue-Collar Blues

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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

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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

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Religion and Education

• Billy Graham

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Postwar Culture

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The Television Culture

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Figure 27.3: The Television Revolution, 1950–1994

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Seeds of Disquiet

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Stalin Dies

• March 5, 1953

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Sputnik

• Sputnik (Little traveler)

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A Different Beat

• Elvis Presley

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Portents of Change

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The Other America

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Poverty and Urban Blight

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Latinos and Latinas

• Bracero Program

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Native Americans

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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

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The Brown Decision and the Southern Manifesto

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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