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The Nifty Fifties 1950-1960

Suburbs

Conformity

“Jim Crow” Laws = Segregation

GI Bill $$$ for college tuition, low interest loans for homes & to start businesses…

Suburbia – “White Flight”

Baby Boom

Rise of Labor Unions Taft-Hartley Act…. Estes Keefauver…. Robert Kennedy… AFL-CIO… Jimmy Hoffa…

Advertising Consumerism… Affluence…

New Domesticity No more “Rosie the Riveter”…..

Hollywood

Influence of TV 1960 Kennedy- Nixon Debate

Influence of TV Civil Rights Marches

“Teenagers”

Memphis: Sun Studios Elvis Presley Rock n’ Roll

Memphis: Stax Records Soul Music

Beatnicks

1896- Plessy v. Ferguson Established “separate but equal”… Segregation laws known as “Jim Crow” Laws…

1954-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Argued by NAACP attorney – Thurgood Marshall Ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional (14th Amendment) Reverses Plessy v. Ferguson

Southern Manifesto 101 Southern Members of Congress… Three Southern Senators did not sign Albert Gore Sr. (TN) Estes Keefauver (TN) Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)

Strom Thurmond “Dixiecrats” – State’s Rights Party 1948 1957 Filibuster 24 hours 18 minutes nonstop & alone… Segregationist SC Senator Democrat 1954-1964 Republican 1964-2003

1956 – Clinton Twelve Clinton, TN One of the first… Gov. Clement calls out the National Guard… White Baptist Minister… 1958 – school severely damaged…

1957 – Little Rock Nine Central High School Gov. Orval Faubus called out National Guard…. Ike called out 1,000 soldiers …

1955 – Rosa Parks

1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sputnik - 1957 US responds with NASA National Defense Education Act….. Schools focus on math & science

“Space Race”