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Consumerism

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The demand to buy things due to the increased demand for consumer goods

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Affluence

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Having a great deal of money/wealth

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American dream

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The belief that anyone can become successful no matter who they are as long as they work hard

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Popular culture

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Culture based on the tastes of ordinary people. Cool things that are ‘in’

  1. TEENAGERS : Had more leisure time and spending money so assumed their own styles and culture
    - ‘Teenager’ came to be associated with rebellion and acting against parents and society
    - Teenage rebels = Marlon Brando, James Dean
  2. ROCK AND ROLL
    - Teenage discontent (rebellion) also represented in this music style
    - Elvis Presley was famous for this style (gyrating hips and sexy persona) shocked parents and wowed fans
  3. TELEVISION
    - Ownership of them spread rapidly and replaced, reading, radio and cinema
    - Mostly commercial sponsors promoting spending on consumer goods
    - Programmes = game shows, sitcoms, soap operas and TV news most important
    - Children’s shows following the ‘baby boom’
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Actors portraying teenage rebels

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Manon Brando
James Dean

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Elvis Presley

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170 hit singles
>80 top selling albums

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Red scare dates

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1945 - The Cold War
1949 - China becomes communist

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HUAC

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House of Un-American Activities Committee
Investigated potential communist activity in gov, education, and film to prove loyalty to America

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Extreme Anti communists

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Joseph (Jo) McCarthy - Senator from Wisconsin who campaigned against communism
- Famous slogan : ‘Reds under the beds’
- sought to seek out and capture any communists : claimed that many communists worked in government and they were tried and found guilty
- Anti - communist headlines in newspapers and news reports on radio and TV
- Went on to accuse some officers of the US Army and the Americans thought that he’d gone a step too far

J. Edgar Hoover - ally of jo and director of FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- kept files on around 1 million suspects, tapped phones and other modern surveillance techniques to track MLK

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- Set up in 1909 with the primary aim of making lynching illegal
- Resolved to use the law and the law courts to fight its campaign
- Was popular for many African Americans in the 1950s
- Famous members : Rosa Parks and MLK

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Brown v Board 1954

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  • Was a court case against the Board of Education in Kansas
  • African American girl had to travel several kilometres to school as the white school nearby didn’t want her
  • Was a test case so if they won the ‘separate but equal’ stance on segregation would collapse
  • May 1954 = won the case
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  • 1955 December
  • Rosa Parks decided to take a stand against the racially segregated bus service by refusing to give up her seat for a white man and was immediately arrested and convicted of breaking his laws
  • Helped AAs form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
  • Publicly agreed to boycott buses for 381 days
  • Income for bus dropped 65%
  • The Supreme Court caved in and made Montgomery bus laws illegal
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Little Rock Nine

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  • 1957
  • Supreme Court ordered the government of Kansas to let 9 AA students attend an all white high school on Little Rock
  • Government of Arkansas responded by sending his state troops to prevent them attending
  • Elizabeth Eckford a student was heckled and abused by bystanders
  • Army backed down when President Eisenhower sent in 1000 federal troops to protect the students and made sure they attended by staying there for two weeks
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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Direct action protests

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CORE

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Congress Of Racially Equality
Black activist group

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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Council
Founded by MLK

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Albany

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November 1961, SNCC
- Students protest against Albany’s bus laws = still segregated despite desegregation laws
- Hundreds arrested though the police didn’t use violence as they’d dint want martyrs or attract any media attention
- City authorities refused to desegregate its facilities - Eventually MLK ram out of protestors willing to be jailed

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The ‘Great March’ on Washington

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August 1963, SCLC?
- over 200,000 people marched on Washington DC demanding civil rights, end of racism and segregation and discrimination
- thousands gathered at the famous Lincoln memorial beside the White House to hear civil rights leaders give speeches : MLK famous ‘I have a Dream’ speech was shown across America = lead many to recognise the unfairness
- The government supported MLK and his protesting techniques
- Gave MLK popularity as he was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement

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Birmingham Alabama

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April 1963, CORE?
- Civil rights protest March saw police force clash with AA protestors
- All of it was broadcasted : the Birmingham police led by Police Chief ‘Bull’ Connor used - cattle prods, dogs and fire hoses to attack the PEACEFUL protestors inc. children and students
- over 1000 were arrested, police action was criticised, MLK was thrown in jail and his hotel room was bombed by KKK
- Government was forced to step in : city authorities eventually desegregated restaurants and all council facilities

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Greensboro

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February 1960 - North Carolina
- Peaceful protest : gained lots of supporters
- 50,000 students participated

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Freedom Riders

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May and June 1961, CORE?
60 Freedom Riders with 450 brave individuals
- KKK set fire to the bus and held the doors shit so they couldn’t escape

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Selma

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1965, SCLC
- Marched 3 days Selma - Montgomery in order to get more black voters registered in the South
- Met with violent resistance known as ‘Bloody Sunday’ 7th March 1965
- Walked 3 days to reach Montgomery under protection of the federalised National Guard

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OAAU

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Organisation of African American Unity

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Poor peoples campaign (1968)

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Bring black people in the ghettos out of poverty

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NOW

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National Organisation for Women set up in 1966

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Equal Pay Act

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Women protested, threatened legal action and went on strike to persuade employers to provide equal opportunities and wages = Equal Pay Act in 1963
However there were still exceptions which were removed in the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972

HOWEVER
Womens avg wages stayed below 70% of a mans avg wage

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Great Society SUCCESSES

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  • 200 laws and programs involving Education, healthcare, Civil Rights Housing etc.
  • 1965 spending on poverty form 1bn dollars to 2 bn dollars
  • % Americans below poverty line dropped from 20% to 12%
  • Funded new transportation programs/projects
  • Banned discriminatory processes that limited the AAs - Voting Rights Act
  • Medicare and Medicaid = Medical insurance for the over 65s and hospital care for the poor (most Americans have private health insurance)
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Why did : consumerism, Affluence, Popular Culture and the American Dream increase post war?

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  • The economic depression was over
  • WW2 helped many American businesses
  • More employment
  • New goods like fridges and TVs
  • Hire purchase - Paying in instalments
  • People were encouraged by the idea of the American Dream
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Why was there a 2nd Red Scare?

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  • End of WW2 = Many Eastern Europeans countries were occupied by the USSR = became communist
  • 1945 = Cold War : espionage in America (A woman called Elizabeth Bentley told HUAC that she had been a part of a Russian led spy ring
  • 1949 = China became Communist : domino effect on surrounding countries
  • HUAC : House of Un-American Activities Committee
    - Korean War
  • Americans thought communism would threaten their economic recovery, democracy and the American Dream as they thought it would stop them from earning and keeping their money
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How Brown v Board ADVANCED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • A step in ending segregation in public schools especially South
  • Showed the power African Americans had when they acted as a unit
  • Encouraged NAACP to campaign for desegregation to other areas like transport
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How Brown v Board HINDERED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Other states (Arkansas) didn’t take on these new segregation laws : only 12% of schools the south took on this legislation
  • KKK were spurred on by the movement ; murders, bombings and their members increased
  • Not time frame = states could postpone the introduction of the laws
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How the Montgomery Bus Boycott ADVANCED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Non- violent and direct action showed the NAACPs capability
  • Further advanced the goal of desegregating the USA
  • MLK started to emerge as this was his plan
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How the Montgomery Bus Boycott HINDERED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • MIAs were subjected to massive intimidation : MLK was arrested twice; churches and homes set on fire; racially integrated buses shot at by snipers
  • Took a long time for segregation laws on buses to be illegal
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How Little Rock Nine ADVANCED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Support from President of that country : growing power (Civil Rights) in states politics and places of power
  • Another non - violent somewhat successful demonstration
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How Little Rock Nine HINDERED the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Still major abuse against black students
  • Only 1 out of the 9 sent there graduated from that school
  • 1959 : headteacher closed the school rather than continue with integration
  • Did Eisenhower do it for the students or to assert his own power as President???
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1964 Civil Rights Act

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  • put in place to end segregation in publics places and beaned employment discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin
  • Was first proposed by JFK and was signed into law by Lyndon. B. Johnson
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1968 - Fair Housing Act

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Follow up of the 1964 Civil Rights
- Prohibited discrimination concerning sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex
- Debate amongst senate but the House of Representatives passed it after MLKs assassination
- Was the final great legislative achievement of the Civil Rights era

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Black Nationalism - and what they wanted

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  • A belief that encouraged pride in black heritage
    They wanted to create a homeland for black people using violence and continuing segregation from white people : called Black Power Movement
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Black nationalists individuals and groups

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Elijah Mohammed
Muhammed Ali
Stockley Carmichael

  • Nation of Islam
  • Black Panthers
  • OAAU (Organisation of African American Unity)
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Malcom X

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Born 1925 as Malcolm Little he grew up in extreme poverty and got involved in crime
- Became a black Muslim whilst in prison and Joined civil rights group Nation of Islam
- Critical of MLKs peaceful methods

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SUCCESSES of the Black Nationalists

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  • MLK acknowledged their belief in black pride and therefore increased it
  • Helped black people in the ghettos : Poor people’s campaign
  • Inspired many groups to form e.g. Black Panthers
  • Their violent nature meant they got significant media coverage
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FAILURES of Black Nationalism

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  • Poor relations between police and African Americans
  • Media coverage was very misinformed and classified the movement as ignorance
  • Violence led to mistrust form law enforcement authorities towards all AA activists
  • Malcolm X was assassinated
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Betty Friedan

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Argued that for women the home had become a concentration camp
- Talked about women’s want to break out of this confined and limited environment on her book Feminine Mystique

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Roe v Wade

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Abortion became legal in 1973 : declared a fundamental right for women under the US constitution

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Supreme Court ruling on equal rights, 1972

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They ruled that contraception should be legally available to unmarried couples on the same terms as for married couples
Caused a moral and religious debate

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Great Society FAILURES

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LBJ didn’t run for a second term = some policies weren’t see through as the following presidents didn’t continue with the Great Society policy
- Some blamed the Vietnam War : diverted funding and as LBJ didn’t run for a second term, people blamed him for the growing death tolls and injuries of American Troops
- Republicans opposed
- Many AAs remained in poor housing

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LBJ : Economic Opportunity Act 1964

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Provided training to disadvantaged youths aged 16-21 and recruited volunteers to work and teach in low income areas

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LBJ : Development Act 1964

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Money was provided for replacing the inner-city slums with new homes

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Kennedy’s social policies (approved by congress)

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  1. Extension of the unemployment benefit
  2. More aid to poor cities to improve housing and transportation
  3. Increase social security benefits
  4. Aid to economically distressed areas
  5. The expansion of rural electrification programmes providing help to rural farming

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