1. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 1 CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY, 1945–1961

2. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 2 Postwar Jitters Demobilization and Reconversion The GI Bill of Rights The Economic Boom Begins

3. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 3 The Affluent Society The New Industrial Society The Age of Computers The Costs of Bigness Blue-Collar Blues

4. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 4 Prosperity and the Suburbs Suburban America Consensus and Conservatism Togetherness, the Baby Boom, and Domesticity Religion and Education Postwar Culture The Television Culture

5. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 5 The Growth of the Sunbelt, 1950–2000 Source: D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, Vol. 4 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 232

6. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 6 Seeds of Disquiet Sputnik A Different Beat Portents of Change

7. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 7 The Other America Poverty and Urban Blight Blacks’ Struggle for Justice Latinos and Latinas Native Americans

8. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.27 | 8 The Civil Rights Movement The Politics of Race Jim Crow in Court The Laws of the Land Mass Protest in Montgomery New Tactics for a New Decade