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
13 Figure 27.1B: The American Farmer, 1940–1993 (cont’d)
14 Prosperity and the Suburbs
15 Suburban America
16 Figure 27.2: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Americans, 1940– 1960
17 Consensus and Conservation
18 Technology and Culture The Interstate Highway System
19 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
23 Figure 27.3: The Television Revolution, 1950–1994
24 Seeds of Disquiet
25 Stalin Dies March 5, 1953
26 Sputnik Sputnik (Little traveler)
27 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
34 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
37 New Tactics for a New Decade Freedom Rides Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) “Snick”
38 Conclusion