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Describe 1950s culture in one word Share & Discuss Mills— “Social Robots”
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Television & Advertising TV dinners “new things and better things” Credit culture “baby boom” “Sun Belt” states
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Suburbs—Levittown “We can solve housing or race but not both” “white flight” Rules of conformity 70,000 residents Largest community in the US w/out a single African American
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AT&T, General Electric, General Motors, Boeing, IMB, Xerox, DuPont, etc… Majority of employment Cold War context = conformity
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1940 less than half of adult population belonged to a church 1960 over 65% were official members Bible sales soared Cold War context “under God” –1954
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Mobility Affluence Rock and Roll Chuck Berry Elvis Presley Crossed racial lines “unfocused rebelliousness” Tools of Communism
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DBQ Essay #2!!!! 1. Betty Freidan 2. NOW 3. Redstockings Manifesto 4. The Case for the ERA 5. Phyllis Schlafly 6. Jerry Falwell 7. 1951 Advertisement “Analyze the impact that post WWII culture had on the development of the American women’s identity” Read and analyze each document Complete a DBQ analysis Write full DBQ Peer/self edit Revise
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