Chapter 28 Section 3 Problems in a Time of Plenty

The Invisible Poor  More than 20% of Americans lived in poverty  Most farmers were not prospering (cotton)  Decline of the coal industry  “White Flight”

ghettos: neighborhoods that were inhabited mainly by poor minority groups. automationautomation: producing goods using mechanical and electronic devices. It became more and more difficult for the urban poor to rise from poverty and improve their lives.

materialism: A focus on accumulating money and possessions rather an interest in spiritual matters.

John Kenneth Galbraith Wrote The Affluent Society It was about the prosperous American society of the 50s. He described…. “air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked automobiles,” driving “through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboard.

Betty Friedan wrote…. “The suburban housewife was the dream image of the young American woman. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, and concerned only about her husband, her children, and her home.” She later discovered……………

The Feminine Mystique This book described the frustration and unhappiness of these married women.

African Americans began a movement toward civil rights in the 1950s.

The important events for African Americans…..  Brown V Board of Education Declared racial segregation in public school unconstitutional

 Bus Boycott…

 President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas……. to enforce a court order to integrate a high school.