2. “Strange Fruit,” performed by Billie Holiday 1956

5. John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and advocate of “rollback”

6. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) Moderate, even “liberal,” Republican Despises the lying tactics of the demagogic McCarthy, but does little to try and stop his reign of terror

7. Joseph Welch (attorney for the U.S. Army) faces off against McCarthy during the televised June, 1954, Congressional hearings

8. Stalin’s funeral in Red Square, March 1953 Stalin Finally DIES!!!

9. September, 1959, edition of Time magazine, featuring the smiling Nikita Khrushchev

10. Kim Il Sung’s bizarre and mysterious son, who took power in North Korea after his father’s death in 1994

11. French Colonial Indochina, including the modern-day nations of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

12. Ho Chi Minh with American, Allied, and Vietnamese backers, 1945

13. Ho Chi Minh proclaiming Vietnamese independence in 1945

14. Divided Vietnam

15. Ngo Dinh Diem meeting with President Eisenhower and Sec. State John Foster Dulles

16. Later photo of a typically armed and dressed Viet Cong soldier in an underground bunker and tunnel system

17. Sputnik Playing cards, c. 1959--receive the Sputnik card and you lose two turns in the “Space Race”

18. Francis Gary Powers with his U-2 spy plane

19. Image of Explorer I and the early logo for the National Air and Space Administration

20. Eisenhower at Home Domestically, Eisenhower took a very moderate approach Disliked excessively big government, but not ideologically opposed to every element of the New Deal Supported Social Security, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage A “liberal” Republican Presidency did not mark a broad shift away from New Deal liberalism Democrats dominated in Congress after 1954 Although some minor economic downturns, by and large the economy thrived during the 1950s Pent-up consumer demand from WWII Lack of competitors due to the destruction of Europe in WWII Government programs like the GI Bill that produced a new highly educated work force Government investment in science and technology But given his dislike of using the federal government to achieve social goals, Eisenhower was reluctant to take a strong role in the emerging Civil Rights movement

21. Truman arrives to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947, the first US president to do so

22. A racially integrated Army unit fighting in Korea

23. Segregated drinking water in Georgia, c. 1953

24. Linda Brown, the little girl in Topeka, Kansas, whose father filed suit after the school board forced her to go to a school more than a mile from her home when an all- white school was seven blocks away

25. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court which ruled in May of 1954 that “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” beginning the end of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson precedent

26. Emmett Till, a 14- year old Chicago boy who dared to whistle at a white woman

27. Emmett Till’s savagely beaten body—the price a black boy paid for whistling at a white women in the supposedly progressive America of the 1950s

28. Rosa Parks being arrested

29. Empty busses during the Montgomery Bus boycott Section from the Montgomery municipal code requiring city busses to segregate

30. Montgomery, Alabama, Klan members warn of the grave dangers of letting black people sit next to white people on busses

31. Montgomery Bus Boycott Demonstrated blacks deeply desired freedom and equality and were willing to personally sacrifice to achieve it Demonstrated power of organizing, civil protests, and the strength in numbers Laughed at the Klan rather than feared them Brought to national prominence a new leader for black civil rights

32. Martin Luther King speaking at bus boycott rally, 1956

33. The 26-year old Reverend Martin Luther King, arrested during the Montgomery Bus Boycott Decidedly non-radical, reasonable leader, but passionate and inspiring Doctorate from Boston University in theology Believed civil rights would be won through Christian love and non-violent resistance "If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled every day, don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate." --Martin Luther King

34. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, who rejected the Supreme Court’s ruling that all U.S. schools must integrate

35. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard bars entry of the “Little Rock Nine” to Central High School, September 1957

36. Questions?

37. Attendance Quiz Three In three or four sentences, briefly identify the historical significance of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott