HISTORY 40C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sun Belt, Mexican Americans, Consumerism
8 Jun 2016
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The war made people want to move to cities. Builders could manufacture houses if they created a lot of houses with a basic plan. Levittown depended on automobiles to be able to get home and go to work which led to road building and highway construction which led to a big boom in automobile construction. Mass transportation systems (street cars) but most were shut down by gm because they wanted to popularize the automobile and have them buy the cars. Red lining prevented african americans from moving into white suburbs. In georgia, there were specific suburbs made for african americans. American indians moved to cities under termination and relocation . Policy followed in 1950s to try to terminate indian reservations and move all indians to mainstream life in the cities, reversed in the. Puerto ricans came after airway travel helped them move. Mexican american agricultural workers dropped out of migrant labor system and moved to cities.
