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35 Cards in this Set
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Katherine Gordon
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critic of the psychological toll of suburban life
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Rosa Parks
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wouldn't give up bus seat to white person in 1956,
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Earl Warren
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cheif justice who wrote brown v boe decision, "seperate education facilities inherently inequal"
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Thurgood Marshall
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naacp lawyer who argued that even substantially equal schools cause psycological damage when segregated
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Jack Kerouac
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started the beatnk movement, wrote "on the road"
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Beatniks
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nonconformist writers, rebelled against materialism
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Fair Deal
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truman's attempt to revive the new deal. medical insurance to all, FEPC to help blacks, Federal aid to schools, did bad in congress
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SNCC
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student civil rights organization who played a major part i the sitin movement in the 60s
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Taft-Hartley Act
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anti union act from 1947, truman tryed ton repeal it in fair deal
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Levittown
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town built bywilliam levitt, inspired many other developments and suburbs of the 50s
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Baby Boom
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children born after WWII, huge boost in population
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Sputnik
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sattelite sent into space by USSR, scared americans
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Highway Act of 56
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act by eisenhower that set up system of transportation
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Commission on Civil Rights
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us commision that investigates civil rights matters
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Explorer
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US's attempt to copy sputnik, failed originally
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Brown v. BOE
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supreme court ruling that outlawed segregation
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Plessy v Ferguson
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supreme court ruling that set up seperate but equal
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MLK JR
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civil rights leader who lead bus boycott and many other campaigns
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SCLC
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southern chritian leadership conference, founded by MLK
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FEPC
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program to ensure equal employment for blacks, made during WWII, truamn tryed to bring back in fair deal
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Presidential Election 1956
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Eisenhower vs stevenson, modern republicanism
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Modern Republicanism
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moderate, pass little legislation "conservative on money, liberal on human beings"
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Little Rock Nine
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black students who tried to go to little rock school, national gaurd called in, eisenhower sends in troops to protect
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Orville Faubus
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anti desegregation, arkansas governor, stood against little rock nine
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C Wright Mills
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sociologist commented on suburbia and people in then 50s
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David Riesman
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wrote lonely crowd, about modern comformity
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John Keats
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wrote crack in the piucture window about american suburbs
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John Birch Society
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american right wing group against communists
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NASA
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american attempt at space and aeronautics
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Segregation
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seperation of people, usually based on race
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Montgomery bus boycott
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boycott to end segregation in busses after rosa parks
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Adlai Stevenson
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democrat who ran against eisenhower
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NDEA
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act to secure funding for the nations schools
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
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wrote baby and child care, standard for 50s house wives
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Will Herberg
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jewish theologian who opposed civil rights movement
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