1. America at Midcentury, 1945 – 1961 Chapter 27

2. 2 Readings Read the entire chapter. “It would be Un American to not read the entire Chapter.” Tricky Dick Nixon

3. 3 Introduction Jackie Roosevelt Robinson

4. 4 Postwar Jitters

5. 5 Demobilization and Recovery

6. 6 GI Bill of Rights GI Bill

7. 7 The Affluent Society

8. 8 The New Industrial Society

9. 9 The Age of Computers

10. 10 The Costs of Bigness

11. 11 Blue-Collar Blues

12. 12 Figure 27.1A: The American Farmer, 1940–1993

13. 13 Figure 27.1B: The American Farmer, 1940–1993 (cont’d)

14. 14 Prosperity and the Suburbs

15. 15 Suburban America

16. 16 Figure 27.2: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Americans, 1940– 1960

17. 17 Consensus and Conservation

18. 18 Technology and Culture The Interstate Highway System

19. 19 Togetherness, the Baby Boom and Domesticity Baby-boom generation Dr. Benjamin Spock

20. 20 Religion and Education Billy Graham

21. 21 Postwar Culture

22. 22 The Television Culture

23. 23 Figure 27.3: The Television Revolution, 1950–1994

24. 24 Seeds of Disquiet

25. 25 Stalin Dies March 5, 1953

26. 26 Sputnik Sputnik (Little traveler)

27. 27 A Different Beat Elvis Presley

28. 28 Portents of Change

29. 29 The Other America

30. 30 Poverty and Urban Blight

31. 31 Latinos and Latinas Bracero Program

32. 32 Native Americans

33. 33 Civil Rights Movement President’s Committee on Civil Rights Earl Warren Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Southern Manifesto

34. 34 The Laws of the Land

35. 35 The Brown Decision and the Southern Manifesto

36. 36 Mass Protest in Montgomery Rosa Parks Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Bus Boycott

37. 37 New Tactics for a New Decade Freedom Rides Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) “Snick”

38. 38 Conclusion