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The Nifty Fifties

The Nifty Fifties. 1950-1960. Suburbs. Conformity. “Jim Crow” Laws = Segregation. GI Bill. $$$ for college tuition, low interest loans for homes & to start businesses…. Suburbia – “White Flight”. Baby Boom. Rise of Labor Unions. Taft-Hartley Act…. Estes Keefauver…. Robert Kennedy…

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The Nifty Fifties

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  1. The Nifty Fifties 1950-1960

  2. Suburbs

  3. Conformity

  4. “Jim Crow” Laws = Segregation

  5. GI Bill • $$$ for college tuition, low interest loans for homes & to start businesses…

  6. Suburbia – “White Flight”

  7. Baby Boom

  8. Rise of Labor Unions • Taft-Hartley Act…. • Estes Keefauver…. • Robert Kennedy… • AFL-CIO… • Jimmy Hoffa…

  9. Advertising • Consumerism… • Affluence…

  10. New Domesticity • No more “Rosie the Riveter”…..

  11. Hollywood

  12. Influence of TV • 1960 Kennedy- Nixon Debate

  13. Influence of TV • Civil Rights Marches

  14. “Teenagers”

  15. Memphis: Sun Studios • Elvis Presley • Rock n’ Roll

  16. Memphis: Stax Records • Soul Music

  17. Beatnicks

  18. 1896- Plessy v. Ferguson • Established “separate but equal”… • Segregation laws known as “Jim Crow” Laws…

  19. 1954-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Argued by NAACP attorney – Thurgood Marshall • Ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional (14th Amendment) • Reverses Plessy v. Ferguson

  20. Southern Manifesto • 101 Southern Members of Congress… • Three Southern Senators did not sign • Albert Gore Sr. (TN) • Estes Keefauver (TN) • Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)

  21. Strom Thurmond • “Dixiecrats” – State’s Rights Party 1948 • 1957 Filibuster 24 hours 18 minutes nonstop & alone… • Segregationist • SC Senator • Democrat 1954-1964 • Republican 1964-2003

  22. 1956 – Clinton Twelve • Clinton, TN • One of the first… • Gov. Clement calls out the National Guard… • White Baptist Minister… • 1958 – school severely damaged…

  23. 1957 – Little Rock Nine • Central High School • Gov. Orval Faubus called out National Guard…. • Ike called out 1,000 soldiers …

  24. 1955 – Rosa Parks

  25. 1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott

  26. Sputnik - 1957 • US responds with • NASA • National Defense Education Act….. • Schools focus on math & science

  27. “Space Race”

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