Civil Rights Movement
This woman refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This term refers to separating students in schools based on race.
What is Educational Segregation?
This mass-produced suburban development symbolized postwar expansion.
What is Levittown?
This new medium brought news and entertainment into American homes.
What is Television?
This satellite was launched by Russian causing panic in the United States.
Sputnik 1
This protest movement lasted over a year and challenged segregation on city buses.
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This practice denied mortgages to minority neighborhoods using discriminatory maps.
What is Redlining?
This term describes the ideal mid-century household with two parents and children.
What is The Nuclear Family?
This music genre, popular among teens, blended rhythm and blues with country influences.
What is Rock ‘n’ Roll?
This California buisnessman created the greatest Instraments in Rock n Roll.
Leo Fender
This leader promoted nonviolent resistance and became the face of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This concept describes systemic barriers that kept minorities out of housing and opportunity.
What is Racial Exclusion?
This period saw a dramatic rise in births after World War II.
What is The Baby Boom?
These thinkers emphasized minimal government and strong belief in free markets.
Who are Libertarians and the “Free Market” advocates?
Along with his musical carrer and famous wife, this man invented his Log Guitar that later became Gibson's best seller.
Les Paul
This 14-year-old’s murder in Mississippi shocked the nation and galvanized activism.
Who is Emmett Till?
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This idea emphasized shared norms about family planning and traditional gender roles.
What is The “Reproductive Consensus”?
This U.S. president of the 1950s led during a time of economic growth and Cold War tension.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This franchise began selling Burgers in 1955.
McDonald's
This process required federal action to make desegregation rulings actually happen in schools.
What is Enforcement of Integration?
These federal programs expanded housing access but often excluded Black Americans.
What are New Deal Housing Policies?
This book argued that America was wealthy but still had serious social inequality.
What is The “Affluent Society”?
This term describes the general political agreement between parties during the 1950s.
What is Consensus Politics?
Jack Kerouac released this famous nvoel detailing the beat lifestyle in 1957.
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