Chapter 26.2: The Affluent Society

Question 1

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Answer 1

Became a key organization in the budding Civil Rights Movement
**- coordinated civil rights groups across the South in their efforts to organize and sustain boycotts, protests,a nd other assults against Jim Crow Discimination **

Question 2

Baby Boom (1945-1964)

Answer 2

Resulted from wide prosperity and contributed to a new culture of childhood, domesticity, and motherhood
- more wealthy, larger homes, and women marrying oyunger

Question 3

Beat Generation

Answer 3

Illustrating emerging tensions between youth-oriented culture and demands of mass media (advertising and political correctness)
- writers, poerts, and musicians that were disillusioned with captialism, consumerism, and traditional gender roles seeking deeper meaning in life studying Eastern religions while experimenting with drugs, sex, and art

Question 4

Mattachine Society

Answer 4

Early organizations of gay and lesbian rights movement in Los Angeles
- formed primarily by gay men as a support group
- held meetings, distributed litearture, providing legal and counseling services undercover

Question 5

Daughters of Bilitis

Answer 5

Early organizations of gay and lesbian rights movement in San Francisco
- formed by gay women as support groups
– held meetings, distributed litearture, providing legal and counseling services undercover

Question 6

Milton Friedman

Answer 6

Built opposition to New Deal as an American advocate by building libertarianism.
- Part of Mont Pelerin Society
- University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics
- huge free market advocate

Question 7

John Birch Society

Answer 7

An ultra-right conspiratiorial minded organization having significant impact on right-wing politics in the coming decades