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20 Cards in this Set
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Levitt Towns
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-production line technology to the building of houses
-segregated for whites only |
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Baby Boom
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-40% of US population was born
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
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The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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Advertising
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-Market segmentation to youth
-youth lifestyle -Create desire |
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Ralph Nader
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-Unsafe at any speed
-US automakers intentionally ignore safety |
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Betty Friedan
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Formation of NOW
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Non-conformists themes
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Hugh Hefner
James Dean and Marlon Brando Jackson Pollock |
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Rise of Rock n' Roll
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-Live performances segregated
-expense of phonograph technology |
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Radio
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-Transistor technology
-Availability of black stations to all races |
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Black Songs - White Performers
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Big Joe Turner and Bill Hailey
Elvis Presley Music helps integrate America |
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Allan Freed
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The Moondog Show
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Earl Warren
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Fundamental fairness
Brown v. Board of Education |
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Emmett Till
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Photo's of dead body
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Black Nationalism
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Elijah Muhammed
Malcom X |
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Checkers Speech
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Speech by Nixon explaining his funds
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Kennedy Nixon Debates
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Kennedy looked better on TV, Nixon sounded better on Radio
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Bay of Pigs
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poorly executed attack on Cuba
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet Union leader during JFK Cold War
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The Berlin Wall
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Wall that separated free West Berlin and communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Soviets had missiles in Cuba that could reach Florida
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