Conform or REBEL?
Women Post World War II options Betty Friedan Domesticity
Red Scare Fear of communism Korea Joseph McCarthy Legacy
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
Emmett Till https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGqqOMTreNA
“Separate but Equal”
Brown vs. Board of Ed
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.
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?
The Decision becomes a Reality: Little Rock, 1957 Eisenhower vs. Faubus US President vs. State Governor Power of Nat’l Government vs. States’ Rights
Faubus vs. Ike: http://www. history Eyes on the Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERXusiEszs
Civil Rights: Beyond the Classroom Truman and the military Sit-in Movement and the formation of SNCC
Domestic Politics Eisenhower, Nixon, and the return of the Republicans “Creeping Socialism”: the Republican unraveling of the New Deal
1950s: Foreign Policy Quiz