HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Little Rock, Arkansas, Checkers Speech, Consumerism
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Little rock-does not send troops in to protect children trying to desegregate a school. 5 years of prosperity: had only 2 recessions, not supportive of civil rights. Brown vs. the board of education-1954: students having access to better schools. Montgomery boycott: rosa parks refused to give up bus seat. Mccarran committee: made to investigate communist people, huac, black list created. Rise of the shopping mall: push to send kids to college. Middle class= 2 incomes: women who wanted to work were messing with the natural essence. Women"s true vocation is to get married and have children. Women went to college instead of getting married. John dulles: opposed to meeting between eisenhower and kuschev. American and soviet union agree to meet in 1960. The new look: ability to hit the enemy with everything in the bucket. Cia: iran-1953, 40% great britain, 40% united states. Hungary 1956: budapest, there are many roads to communism.
