1. The Nifty Fifties

3. Suburbs

4. Conformity

5. “Jim Crow” Laws = Segregation

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

8. Suburbia – “White Flight”

10. Baby Boom

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

12. Advertising
Consumerism…
Affluence…

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

18. Hollywood

19. Influence of TV
1960 Kennedy-
Nixon Debate

20. Influence of TV
Civil Rights Marches

21. “Teenagers”

22. Memphis: Sun Studios
Elvis Presley
Rock n’ Roll

23. Memphis: Stax Records
Soul Music

24. Beatnicks

25. 1896- Plessy v. Ferguson Established “separate but equal”…
Segregation laws known as “Jim Crow” Laws…

27. 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

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

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

30. 1956 – Clinton Twelve Clinton, TN One of the first…
Gov. Clement calls out the National Guard…
White Baptist Minister…
1958 – school severely damaged…

32. 1957 – Little Rock Nine Central High School
Gov. Orval Faubus called out National Guard….
Ike called out 1,000 soldiers …

35. 1955 – Rosa Parks

36. 1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott

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

39. “Space Race”