1. Postwar Prosperity & Civil Rights
Topic 14

2. Postwar Economic Boom Bretton Woods Conference (7/1944) GI Bill
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
GI Bill
Baby Boom
Suburban Growth
“Levittown”
White Flight
Rise of the Sunbelt

3. Eisenhower Takes Command
Domestic Policies
Modern Republicanism
Immigration
Interstate Highway System
Highway Act of 1956

4. Space Race & the Cold War
Sputnik (1957)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1958)
National Defense and Education Act (1958)

5. The Consumer Culture Movies and Television Rock ‘n’ Roll Advertising
Corporate America
Religion

6. The Consumer Culture Social Critics Art Literature The Beat Generation
No. 5, by Jackson Pollock
Social Critics
Art
Abstract Impressionism (1950s)
Jackson Pollock
Pop Art (1960s)
Andy Warhol
Literature
The Beat Generation
Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962)
“War on Poverty”

7. Early Civil Rights Movement
Origins of the Movement
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Groundbreakers: Jackie Robinson
Truman’s Civil Rights Policies
Executive Order 9981
Election of 1948 (States’ Rights Party)
Changing Demographics

8. Early Civil Rights Movement
Desegregating the Schools
NAACP – Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Chief Justice Earl Warren

9. Early Civil Rights Movement
Central High—Little Rock, AR (1957)
“Little Rock Nine”
Governor Orval Faubus
Civil Rights Act (1957)

10. The Civil Rights Movement Grows
Emmitt Till (1955)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. The Civil Rights Movement Grows
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Nonviolent resistance
Civil disobedience
Greensboro, NC (1960)
sit-ins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

13. Kennedy and Civil Rights
Freedom Riders (CORE) (1961)
James Meredith (Sept. 1962)
“Ole Miss”
Birmingham, AL
MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail (Apr. ‘63)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

14. Kennedy and Civil Rights
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
“I Have a Dream” speech
Kennedy assassination
November 22, 1963

15. Triumph of Civil Rights Movement
24th Amendment (1964)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Part of “Great Society”
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
“Freedom Summer”
March from Selma to Montgomery (3/1965)
Voting Rights Act of 1965

16. Black Power & Racial Violence
Black Separatism
Malcolm X
SNCC & CORE
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panther party

17. Black Power & Racial Violence
Riots
Watts (1965)
“Long Hot Summers”
Kerner Commission, 1967
Murder in Memphis (4/4/1968)

18. Other Equal Rights Movements
Mexican Americans
United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
La Raza Unida Party
Native Americans
American Indian Movement
1972 sit-in at BIA

19. 1960s Liberalism LBJ’s Great Society
Contain Communism Abroad - Vietnam
End racial discrimination
Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts
Eliminate poverty
“War on Poverty”
Other social issues
Medicare / Medicaid
Immigration Act of 1965

20. 1960s Liberalism Supreme Court & individual freedoms Activism
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
Activism
The New Left
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
“The Weathermen”
1960s Counterculture
Rejection of parents’ values
Sexual revolution
Greater informality into US culture
Gay Rights Movement