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GI Bill of Rights
The bill provided pensions and govt. loans to help veterans start through the GI Bill to attend college.
Employment Act
Act committed the govt. to promoting full employment and production.
Council of Economic Advisers
To confer with the president on economic policy.
Taft-Hartley Act
Gave judges the power to end some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements.
Committee on Civil Rights
Created by Truman in December 1946, to examine racial issues.
Dixiecrats
They called for continued racial segregation.
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina governor ran as the Dixiecrats presidential candidates.
Henry Wallace
Former Vice-President who left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party.
Thomas Dewey
Ran for the Republicans in the 1946 election. Got upset by Truman.
Fair Deal
Proposed by Truman to help out the U.S.
Oveta Culp Hobby
Man who supervised Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Modern Republicanism
Eisenhower's approach to Domestic affairs.
automation
1950's companies introduced machines that greatly increased productivity.
George Meany
AFL-CIO's first president.
Highway Act
Greatly expanded the nation's highway system.
baby boom
The large of amount of new children in the 1950's.
rock'n'roll
Type of music.
Elvis Presley
Rock's leading talent.
Juvenile Delinquency
Anti-social behavior by the young.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Case that made the supreme court, about a black girl wanting to attend an all white elementary school.
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf.
Little Rock Nine
9 black students who attended an all white school in Little Rock.
Rosa Parks
Women who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested.
The Montgomery Improvement Association
A group of local civil rights leaders in Montgomery.
Martin Luther King Jr.
26 year old baptist minister.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Made it a federal crime to prevent eligible people from voting.
Felix Longoria
Mexican-American Soldier killed during World War 2.
Ralph Ellison
published invisible man!