Post-War Society
These mass-produced suburban communities symbolized the American Dream for many WWII veterans.
What are Levittowns?
This discriminatory practice denied home loans to people in minority neighborhoods.
What is Redlining?
This 1954 case ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This movement sought to end racial segregation and gain equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This rock & roll legend helped define the sound of 1950s youth culture.
Who is Chuck Berry?
This ideal of success included a house, a job, and a family in the suburbs.
What is the American Dream?
This federal agency insured mortgages but supported racially biased housing practices.
What is the Federal Housing Agency?
She was the young girl at the center of the Brown v. Board case.
Who is Linda Brown?
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and preached nonviolence.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
He created powerful drawings and paintings of African American life and struggle.
Who is Charles White?
This government program offered veterans benefits like college tuition and low-cost home loans.
What is the GI Bill?
This New Deal program refinanced mortgages but also contributed to segregation.
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation?
NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Board and became the first Black Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This leader believed in Black self-defense and criticized nonviolence early in his career.
Who is Malcolm X?
His “Migration Series” depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the South.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
This demographic shift saw white families moving from cities to suburbs.
What is White Flight?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This type of segregation is enforced by law.
What is De Jure Segregation?
Protesters used this method to occupy segregated lunch counters peacefully.
What is a Sit-In?
This brutal form of racial terror was used to intimidate Black Americans.
What is Lynching?
This new youth demographic emerged with their own culture and economic influence.
Who are Teenagers?
This phrase was used to justify segregation, even when conditions were not equal.
What is "Separate but Equal"?
This civil rights organization played a major role in court challenges to segregation.
What is the NAACP?
These activists rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test desegregation laws.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This organization, led by MLK, promoted nonviolent protest in the South.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?