1. Conform or REBEL?

2. Women
Post World War II options
Betty Friedan
Domesticity

3. Red Scare
Fear of communism
Korea
Joseph McCarthy
Legacy

4. Suburbs Why did suburbs grow in the wake of WWII?
How did suburbs encourage conformity?
How did suburbia accelerate segregation?
Describe segregation in the South in the 1950s

5. Emmett Till

6. “Separate but Equal”

11. Brown vs. Board of Ed

12. Brown vs. Board of Education
Overview of Case
This case is a consolidation of several different cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. Several black children (through their legal representatives, Ps) sought admission to public schools that required or permitted segregation based on race. The plaintiffs alleged that segregation was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In all but one case, a three judge federal district court cited Plessy v. Ferguson in denying relief under the “separate but equal” doctrine. On appeal to the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs contended that segregated schools were not and could not be made equal and that they were therefore deprived of equal protection of the laws.

13. Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court’s Decision: The race-based segregation of children into “separate but equal” public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is unconstitutional.
Despite the “separate but equal” requirement outlined in the earlier Plessy vs. Ferguson decision, the act of separating students based on race implies inequality.
“Separating black children from others solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”
Schools must desegregate with “all deliberate speed.” What does this mean? Why is the wording so vague? How did Southern whites react?

15. The Decision becomes a Reality: Little Rock, 1957
Eisenhower vs. Faubus
US President vs. State Governor
Power of Nat’l Government vs. States’ Rights

16. Faubus vs. Ike: http://www. history
Eyes on the Prize:

17. Civil Rights: Beyond the Classroom
Truman and the military
Sit-in Movement and the formation of SNCC

18. Domestic Politics Eisenhower, Nixon, and the return of the Republicans
“Creeping Socialism”: the Republican unraveling of the New Deal

19. 1950s: Foreign Policy
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