America at Midcentury,

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Chapter 27

• America at Midcentury,
• 1945 1961

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Readings

• Read the entire chapter.

It would be Un American to not read the entire
Chapter. Tricky Dick Nixon
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Introduction

• Jackie Roosevelt Robinson

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Postwar Jitters
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Demobilization and Recovery
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GI Bill of Rights

• GI Bill

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The Affluent Society
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The New Industrial Society
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The Age of Computers
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The Costs of Bigness
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Blue-Collar Blues
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Figure 27.1A The American Farmer, 19401993
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Figure 27.1B The American Farmer, 19401993
(contd)
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Prosperity and the Suburbs
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Suburban America
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Figure 27.2 Urban, Suburban, and Rural
Americans, 19401960
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Consensus and Conservation
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Technology and CultureThe Interstate Highway
System
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Togetherness, the Baby Boom and Domesticity

• Baby-boom generation

• Dr. Benjamin Spock

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Religion and Education

• Billy Graham

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Postwar Culture
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The Television Culture
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Figure 27.3 The Television Revolution, 19501994
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Seeds of Disquiet
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Stalin Dies

• March 5, 1953

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Sputnik

• Sputnik (Little traveler)

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A Different Beat

• Elvis Presley

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Portents of Change
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The Other America
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Poverty and Urban Blight
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Latinos and Latinas

• Bracero Program

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Native Americans
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Civil Rights Movement

• Presidents Committee on Civil Rights
• Earl Warren
• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
• Southern Manifesto

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The Laws of the Land
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The Brown Decision and the Southern Manifesto
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Mass Protest in Montgomery

• Rosa Parks
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
• Montgomery Bus Boycott

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New Tactics for a New Decade

• Freedom Rides
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• (SNCC) Snick

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Conclusion