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1950s - Politics & Culture of Abundance


Culture

Economy

Politics

Conflict


Pres. Dwight Eisenhower

V.P. Richard Nixon

Culture

Growth of suburbs

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Growth of suburbs

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Low-cost/long-term mortgages

Low-cost construction loans

High Demand (Baby Boom)

GI Bill

“Tract” homes

“Baby Boom”

Growth of population

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Economy

What’s driving the growth?

Increased production

Savings

Technology

Consumer Spending

Economy

Booming industries

Housing

Television

Booming industries

Highways

Booming industries

Malls

Economy

Booming industries

Defense

Aerospace

“Sun Belt”

“white flight”

Change/Conflict

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/09/29/hempstead-black-suburbia

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https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/black-suburbia/more

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiHh_6pj9TeAhUBJKwKHdw2A9kQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqmue&psig=AOvVaw2Mk2WDD7AcytIK0wWHJXEZ&ust=1542292990844977

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“Restrictive

covenants”

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Civil rights movement

peaceful, non-violent

“civil disobedience”

courts

Civil disobedience

Montgomery bus boycott, 1955

Rosa Parks

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brown vs. Board of Education

of Topeka, KS

1954

Thurgood Marshall

James Nabrit,

Thurgood Marshall,

George Hayes

“Beat Generation”

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Allen Ginsberg

“Howl”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Conflict/Tension

“mutually assured destruction”

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