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10  Describe 1950s culture in one word  Share & Discuss  Mills— “Social Robots”

11  Television & Advertising  TV dinners  “new things and better things”  Credit culture  “baby boom”  “Sun Belt” states

12  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

13  AT&T, General Electric, General Motors, Boeing, IMB, Xerox, DuPont, etc…  Majority of employment  Cold War context = conformity

14  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

15  Mobility  Affluence  Rock and Roll Chuck Berry Elvis Presley Crossed racial lines “unfocused rebelliousness” Tools of Communism

16  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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