Civil Rights
Year long boycott of bus services by African Americans in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional, overruling the "separate but equal" principle from the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is Rock and Roll?
A device that almost every American household contained after the end of the 1950s.
What is a TV?
The Russian satellite the started the Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
Civil Rights Activist who sparked a boycott of public transportation in Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
President who won support from his down to earth image and promise to end the Korean War. He was the Supreme Commander in WWII.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The singer known as the King of Rock.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The system that facilitated travel between states and connected major cities.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
The city that became the new home of television production.
What is Los Angeles?
The group of 9 African American students that enrolled into an all white school in Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Eisenhower's 1952 running mate.
Who is Nixon?
The first sitcom to have a live audience.
What is "I Love Lucy"?
A town that represents the American Dream while highlighting the problems in American society.
What is Levittown?
The illegal practice of denying loans or insurance services on the basis of racial composition of a neighborhood or sector
What is Redlining?
Civil Rights organization founded in 1957 by MLK.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
One of the results of integrating schools in response to Brown v. Board of Education.
What is... Closing public schools/Funding for segregated private schools/Pupil placement laws?
A magazine that challenged conservative beliefs.
What is Playboy?
This act funded construction of more than 40,000 miles of roads and established guidelines for them.
What is the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956?
A region of southern US stretching from Florida to Southern California that experienced rapid growth post WWII.
What is the Sunbelt?
14 year old boy who was brutally lynched and killed in Mississippi, 1955, becoming a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
The two politicians who participated in the Kitchen Debate.
Who are Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev?
Book that spoke of freedom, rebellion, challenging societal norms, and promoting counterculture
What is On The Road?
The company that created Levittown.
What is Levitt and Sons Inc.?
A debate that signified the contrasting ideologies of the US and USSR during the Cold War.
What is the Kitchen Debate?