American Yawp Ch. 26

Affluent Society

A term describing America's economic prosperity in the 1950s.

GI Bill

Legislation providing benefits to World War II veterans.

Levittown

First mass-produced suburb in the United States.

Redlining

Discriminatory practice denying services based on neighborhood.

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 Supreme Court case ending school segregation.

Emmett Till

African American boy lynched in 1955, igniting civil rights.

Rosa Parks

Civil rights activist known for refusing bus seat.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Protest against racial segregation on public buses.

MLK, Jr.

Leader of the American civil rights movement.

Television

Mass medium that shaped American culture in the 1950s.

Baby boom

Significant increase in birth rates post-World War II.

Dwight Eisenhower

34th President of the United States, 1953-1961.