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America at Midcentury: Society, Technology, and Civil Rights

Explore the transformative period in American history from 1945-1961, examining postwar recovery, suburbanization, technological advancements, and the civil rights movement.

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America at Midcentury: Society, Technology, and Civil Rights

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  1. Chapter 27 America at Midcentury, 1945 – 1961

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

  3. Introduction • Jackie Roosevelt Robinson

  4. Postwar Jitters

  5. Demobilization and Recovery

  6. GI Bill GI Bill of Rights

  7. The Affluent Society

  8. The New Industrial Society

  9. The Age of Computers

  10. The Costs of Bigness

  11. Blue-Collar Blues

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

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

  14. Prosperity and the Suburbs

  15. Suburban America

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

  17. Consensus and Conservation

  18. Technology and CultureThe Interstate Highway System

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

  20. Billy Graham Religion and Education

  21. Postwar Culture

  22. The Television Culture

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

  24. Seeds of Disquiet

  25. Stalin Dies • March 5, 1953

  26. Sputnik (Little traveler) Sputnik

  27. Elvis Presley A Different Beat

  28. Portents of Change

  29. The Other America

  30. Poverty and Urban Blight

  31. Latinos and Latinas • Bracero Program

  32. Native Americans

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

  34. The Laws of the Land

  35. The Brown Decision and the Southern Manifesto

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

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

  38. Conclusion

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