Postwar Prosperity & Civil Rights Topic 14 1941-1973

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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)

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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