visions chapter 25
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IN A LAND OF PLENTYCONTENTMENT AND DISCORD, 1945–1960
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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: IN A LAND OF PLENTY: CONTENTMENT AND DISCORD, 1945-1960I. Securing the New Deal Legacy
II. A Middle-class America
III. Popular Culture in the Fifties
IV. Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement
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Securing the New Deal LegacyA. The Labor Movement Curtailed
B. Presidential Agendas: Truman and Eisenhower
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The Labor Movement CurtailedTaft-Hartley Act (1947) - Law that abolished the closed
shop, banned so-called sympathy boycotts, and required that all union officers sign affidavits certifying that they were not members of the Communist Party.
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Presidential Agendas: Truman and Eisenhower
Fair Deal - Truman’s proposals for national health care, public housing, education, and public works projects.
Military-Industrial Complex - Eisenhower’s term for the close ties between the defense industry and the Pentagon that might influence government policy.
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The Move to the SuburbsLevittowns - Planned suburban communities where
developers standardized every part of the construction process.
Baby Boom Generation - The 76.4 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964.
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Separate and Unequal: Challenging Segregated SchoolsBrown v. Board of Education - Supreme Court decision that
segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955Montgomery Bus Boycott - A year-long bus boycott that
brought a new leader, Martin Luther King Jr., and a new strategy of nonviolent protest to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955Southern Christian Leadership Council - Civil rights
organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. that used black churches to devise a new nonviolent strategy of direct action.
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The Little Rock Nine, 1957Little Rock Nine - Nine black teenagers who integrated
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 and became the focus of a national crisis that required the intervention of federal troops to resolve.
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The Sit-insSit-Ins - Nonviolent demonstrations where civil rights
protesters employed the tactic of civil disobedience to occupy seats at whites-only lunch counters.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - Student-run civil rights organization founded in 1960.
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The Sit-insCivil Disobedience - A strategy of nonviolence used by
demonstrators to protest a law or a policy considered unjust.