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Life in the 1950’s Wed/Thurs 4/18-19

Life in the 1950’s Wed/Thurs 4/18-19. Vocab: Jim Crow Laws Brown vs. Board of Education Eisenhower Brinkmanship White Flight Guiding Questions: What happened to Emmitt Till? How did TV change America?. Segregation was still prominent in the South

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Life in the 1950’s Wed/Thurs 4/18-19

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  1. Life in the 1950’sWed/Thurs 4/18-19 Vocab: Jim Crow Laws Brown vs. Board of Education Eisenhower Brinkmanship White Flight Guiding Questions: What happened to Emmitt Till? 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 Segregation in the 1950s

  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 Emmitt Till

  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 Eisenhower for President

  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 The Suburbs are Born

  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) TV and Entertainment

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