1. Vocab: 1. Jim Crow Laws 2. Brown vs. Board of Education 3. Eisenhower 4. Brinkmanship 5. White Flight Guiding Questions: 1. What happened to Emmitt Till? 2. How did TV change America?

2. * Segregation was still prominent in the South * Jim Crow Laws: The laws that segregated the blacks and whites in the South * Brown vs. Board of Education: Landmark Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and said that schools must be desegregated

3. * 14 year old boy from Chicago, Il who went to go visit his relatives in Mississippi. * In a grocery store, he said something to a young white woman * A few nights later her husband and his brother in law came and took Till. * They beat him, gouged out an eye and shot him. * Threw his body in the river. * They were acquitted of kidnapping and murder * Later admitted killing him in a magazine interview

4. * Dwight D. Eisenhower ran for president in 1952 * War hero, ran as a Republican * Known as “Ike” * Running mate was Richard Nixon * Had to deal with the death of Stalin and the new leader of the Soviet Union—Nikita Khrushchev * Had a tough approach to Communism known as brinkmanship—diplomatic art of going to the brink of war without actually getting into war * Also strengthens the CIA

5. * New homes were built outside of cities * More affordable, using mass-produced materials to create houses * “cookie-cutter” houses * Became the ideal of the “American Dream” * White flight: The movement of whites from the cities to more suburban to ensure segregation of the races * Most of these refused to sell to African Americans AT ALL * The growth of the suburbs led to the building of the interstate highway system

6. * Coast to coast live TV started in 1951 * TV became an important part of homes in American * Stars were born like Lucille Ball * The American rebel was born with Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley * TV began to change people’s images (both good and bad)