1. The Eisenhower Era
Post WWII saw an increase in home construction
These new homes were built in groups known as tract homes. One of the first developers was a man named Bill Levitt
Affordable housing for returning GI’s

3. Eisenhower Most popular man of his time 1952 election issues
Korean War
Problems w/MacArthur

4. Election
Adlai E. Stevenson – democrat
Richard Nixon Eisenhower’s VP

5. Richard Nixon & Controversy
Nixon accused of misuse of government funds
Responds on T.V. speech “Checkers”
Saved his career and he became VP

6. End of Campaign
Eisenhower promised to go to Korea to end the War, he was not successful
7 months after armistice signed
Ike hinted during negotiations about a possible nuclear attack on China
China tired of war and expense

7. Racism Desegregating American Society
1950, 50 million black citizens of which two-thirds still lived in the South
Jim Crow Laws strong
Separate facilities such as bathrooms and schools
Only twenty percent of eligible blacks were registered voters. Fewer than 5% voted in Mississippi and Alabama

8. Racism continued 1954 Emmett Till of Chicago was murdered by white mob
Changes, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers
Rise of Civil rights, Wendell Willkie wrote “One World” in 1943 and Gunnar Myrdal wrote “An American Dilemma” which highlighted the contradiction in the U.S prejudice v equality

9. Civil Rights WWII left the lasting feeling of wanting to be free
Black community not willing to suffer in silence. Ready for the Civil Rights Movement
Legal Rights – NAACP trying to get rid of rulings like Plessy v Ferguson

10. Civil Rights
Sweatt v Painter found that separate professional schools for blacks failed to meet the test of equality
Dec Rosa Parks caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott
27 year old Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a civil rights leader in Montgomery
Bus strike would last over a year, result buses ordered to desegregate