APUSH Chapter 30A Part 2 Flashcards
Television
TV becomes available to the masses
Family oriented (1 TV per home)
Shows often promoted traditional American values (family, hard work, honesty, patriotism)
Avoided controversial topics
Becomes platform for entertainment (sports, politics, etc)
Westerns, tv shows
Teenagers
New treated as distinct subsets of the population Targeted by markets Movies=away from parents Content focuses on teenage interests Car culture "cruisin" Clothes, fads
Rock and Roll
DJ Allan Freed (Cleveland) begins playing a new style of music played by black artists
-teenage themes–>school, dances, allusions to sex
-promoted suggestive dances
-white kids listening to black music?
Kids loved it, parents hated it
Traditional music–>bing crosby
Early black artists
Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard Doo woop silly lyrics Rock around the clock Buddy holly Dances: the stroll, the the lindey hip, the twist
Civil Rights Movement goals
- End segregation
- Equal educational opportunities
- Equal employment opportunities
- End police brutality and unequal treatment in justice system
- Guarantee all political participation
Jim Crow Laws
Race bared
Legal segregation of schools, buses, trains, restrooms, restaurants
Roughly 20% of blacks registered to vote
De facto segregation
In effect
Happens by fact
Results from other factions
De Jure segregation
By law
WWII raises awareness of discrimination
Double V campaign
Tuskegee airmen
FEPC
Truman desegregates military 1948
Jackie Robinson
First black player in MLB
chosen by branch Rickey (GM of Brooklyn Dodgers)
Becomes a symbol of hope for blacks across US
HOF (1962)
#42 retired across baseball
Brown vs. Board of Ed. (1954)
Thurgood Marshall (NAACP) argues against separate but equal
Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Wamen rules segregated schools are unconstitutional
Overturns decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
Decision is resisted by many in the south
Southern manifesto drafted in response
Emmett Till
14 year old boy
Accused of leering at a woman
Lynched by a white mob in Mississippi
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6)
Rosa Parks
Boards bus in “whites only” section –> arrested
NAACP organizes year long boycott
MLK becomes leader
Supreme Court rules segregation of buses illegal
Little Rock Nine 1957
Gov. Of Arkansas Orval Favbus refuses to admit 9 black students to central HS (Little Rock, AR)
-mobilizes national guard to stop students from entering
White mobs join
Eisenhower refuses to allow states to overrule federal law
Uses federal troops to ensure admittance of black students
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Born to wealthy family in Atlanta Educated in North (PhD. From BU) Pastor at church Becomes leader of CR movement Masterful speaker Uses biblical constitutional arguments in favor of segregation Use of nonviolent protest Influence by Thoreau, Ghandhi, Randolph (FEPC)
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Founded by MLK, other religious leaders
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Riders 1961
Blacks and whites hid in interstate buses to challenge non enforcement of SC decisions making segregated buses illegal
Segregated buses illegal
Riders sponsored by the congress of racial equality (CORE)
Freedom riders response
Attacked by white mobs Bats, pipes White members targeted JFK, RFK, send federal marshals Bring national attention to segregation policies of southern states
Sit in Movement
Protest against segregated lunch counters
James Meredith
Attempt to rereoll in Univ of Mississippi
JFK sends in federal troops
Meredith graduates 1964
Shot by sniper
Birmingham Campaign
MLK leads attempts to desegregate Birmingham Alabama
Desegregation of stores, schools, fair hiring practices
One of the most segregated cities of the south
Common public safety bull Connor
Peaceful protests met w violence
King arrested
Writes letter from Birmingham jail
