Post World War 2 Changes And Continuities Essay

Changes And Continuities In Post World War 2 America Especially during the time period of 1945-1961, there was an abundance of changes throughout the country, especially social changes. New ideas were blossoming, more and more people were leaving the traditional ideals of America and being more rebellious, fighting for civil rights and doing other liberal-centered stereotypes, like listening to rock music and writing or making art depicting what they felt was a boring, simple country. On the other hand, conservatives stayed with tradition and built the “American Dream”, with a suburban house, stay at home mothers, working fathers, and expensive appliances that were not necessary but advertised. There were many changes in the conformity or lack thereof to American …show more content…
For the longest time, African Americans were segregated off from white schools, white restaurants, white movie theaters, white suburbs - any public space you can think of, it was segregated. In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, it was decided that this segregation was constitutional as long as it stayed “separate but equal”. However, black-only spaces were substantially lower quality than those white-only spaces. This pushed many to fight for desegregation. As seen in Document 1, the Little Rock Nine was the first nine black students to attend a desegregated school. This was a huge turning point for African Americans, especially since even after they were escorted into the school by law enforcement, there was still opposition towards them being there because of their skin color. The Little Rock Nine entered that school because of the Brown v. Board of Education case (Doc 5), which demonstrated that any school that was segregated was “inherently unequal”, and therefore there could not be any segregated school that followed the guidelines of Plessy v. Ferguson. This was one of the