Affluence and Conformity in America (1955-1963)

Rosa Parks boycott location

Montgomery

Restaurant chain associated with 'on the road culture'

McDonald's

Brown v. Board of Education 1951 order

Desegregation of schools

Dominant collar work by 1960

White collar

Rock and roll star emerged in 1954

Elvis Presley

Kennedy's 1960 speech name

New Frontier

First satellite in space

Sputnik

Developments in suburbs built in 1947

Levittowns

Origin of 'nik' in Beatniks

Sputnik

Percentage of Americans with a television by 1960

90%

Phrase for white middle class Americans leaving for suburbs

White Flight

14-year-old lynched in 1955

Emmett Till

Famous teen rebels in Hollywood

James Dean and Marlon Brando

Kennedy raised minimum wage to

$1.25 per hour

Police commissioner in Birmingham in 1963

Eugene Bull O’Connor

1950s TV program theme about women working

I Love Lucy

Cars desired by wealthy white men

Bell Air, Chevrolet, Ford Thunderbird

Founding member of the 'Beat Generation'

Jack Kerouac

Miles of interstate highways authorized by Eisenhower

42,000 miles

Critic of American materialism in 'The Affluent Society'

John Kenneth Galbraith

Organization sending young Americans abroad

Peace Corps

Book inspiring Kennedy's focus on environmentalism

The Silent Spring

Nickname given to the Peace Corps

Kennedy's kiddie corps

Organizations opposing civil rights movement

Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils

Percentage of black Americans unable to vote in 1955

75%

Location of the 101st airborne in 1957

Little Rock, Arkansas

Civil rights campaign led by CORE

Freedom Rides