Postwar Prosperity Civil Rights APUSH Unit 13 1941

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Postwar Prosperity & Civil Rights APUSH Unit 13 1941 -1973

Postwar Prosperity & Civil Rights APUSH Unit 13 1941 -1973

1960 s Liberalism • LBJ’s Great Society • Contain Communism Abroad - Vietnam •

1960 s Liberalism • LBJ’s Great Society • Contain Communism Abroad - Vietnam • End racial discrimination • Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts • Eliminate poverty • “War on Poverty” • Other social issues • Medicare / Medicaid • Immigration Act of 1965

1960 s Liberalism • Supreme Court & individual freedoms • Chief Justice Earl Warren

1960 s Liberalism • Supreme Court & individual freedoms • Chief Justice Earl Warren • Miranda v. Arizona, 1966 • Activism • The New Left • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • “The Weathermen” • 1960 s Counterculture • Rejection of parents’ values • Sexual revolution • Greater informality into US culture • Gay Rights Movement

Postwar Economic Boom • Bretton Woods Conference (7/1944) – International Monetary Fund – World

Postwar Economic Boom • Bretton Woods Conference (7/1944) – International Monetary Fund – World Bank • • • GI Bill Baby Boom Suburban Growth – “Levittown” – White Flight • Rise of the Sunbelt

Eisenhower Takes Command • Domestic Policies – Modern Republicanism – Immigration – Interstate Highway

Eisenhower Takes Command • Domestic Policies – Modern Republicanism – Immigration – Interstate Highway System • Highway Act of 1956

Space Race & the Cold War • Sputnik (1957) – National Aeronautics and Space

Space Race & the Cold War • Sputnik (1957) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1958) – National Defense and Education Act (1958)

The Consumer Culture • • • Movies and Television Rock ‘n’ Roll Advertising Corporate

The Consumer Culture • • • Movies and Television Rock ‘n’ Roll Advertising Corporate America Religion

The Consumer Culture • Social Critics – Art • Abstract Impressionism (1950 s) –

The Consumer Culture • Social Critics – Art • Abstract Impressionism (1950 s) – Jackson Pollock • Pop Art (1960 s) – Andy Warhol – Literature – The Beat Generation – Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) • “War on Poverty” No. 5, by Jackson Pollock

Early Civil Rights Movement • Origins of the Movement – Jim Crow Laws •

Early Civil Rights Movement • Origins of the Movement – Jim Crow Laws • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) – Groundbreakers: Jackie Robinson – Truman’s Civil Rights Policies • Executive Order 9981 • Election of 1948 (States’ Rights Party) – Changing Demographics – Changing Attitudes in the Cold War

Early Civil Rights Movement • Desegregating the Schools – NAACP – Thurgood Marshall –

Early Civil Rights Movement • Desegregating the Schools – NAACP – Thurgood Marshall – Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) • Chief Justice Earl Warren

Early Civil Rights Movement • Central High—Little Rock, AR (1957) – “Little Rock Nine”

Early Civil Rights Movement • Central High—Little Rock, AR (1957) – “Little Rock Nine” – Governor Orval Faubus • Civil Rights Act (1957)

The Civil Rights Movement Grows • Emmitt Till (1955) • Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

The Civil Rights Movement Grows • Emmitt Till (1955) • Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) – Rosa Parks – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Civil Rights Movement Grows • Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) – Rosa Parks –

The Civil Rights Movement Grows • Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) – Rosa Parks – Martin Luther King, Jr. • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) – Nonviolent resistance – Civil disobedience • Greensboro, NC (1960) – sit-ins – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Kennedy and Civil Rights • Freedom Riders (CORE) (1961) • James Meredith (Sept. 1962)

Kennedy and Civil Rights • Freedom Riders (CORE) (1961) • James Meredith (Sept. 1962) – “Ole Miss” • Birmingham, AL – MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail (Apr. ‘ 63) • “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ”

Kennedy and Civil Rights • March on Washington – August 28, 1963 – “I

Kennedy and Civil Rights • March on Washington – August 28, 1963 – “I Have a Dream” speech • Kennedy assassination – November 22, 1963

Triumph of Civil Rights Movement • 24 th Amendment (1964) • Civil Rights Act

Triumph of Civil Rights Movement • 24 th Amendment (1964) • Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Part of “Great Society” – Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • “Freedom Summer” • March from Selma to Montgomery (3/1965) • Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Power & Racial Violence • Black Separatism – Malcolm X • SNCC &

Black Power & Racial Violence • Black Separatism – Malcolm X • SNCC & CORE – Stokely Carmichael • Black Panther party

Black Power & Racial Violence • Riots – Watts (1965) – “Long Hot Summers”

Black Power & Racial Violence • Riots – Watts (1965) – “Long Hot Summers” • Kerner Commission, 1967 • Murder in Memphis (4/4/1968)

Other Equal Rights Movements • Mexican Americans – United Farm Workers • Cesar Chavez

Other Equal Rights Movements • Mexican Americans – United Farm Workers • Cesar Chavez – La Raza Unida Party • Native Americans – American Indian Movement 1972 sit-in at BIA