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What was the average cost of a Chevrolet or Ford? What fraction of the average family income was this?
$1,300
2/5
How many cars were manufactured in 1955?
7.9 mill
How many mils of interstate highway did Eisenhower lay?
41,000
When was the first Holiday Inn?
1952
How many MacDonalds were there by 1960?
228
How many more white collar jobs were this in 1960 than in 1950?
6 mill
When was the first Levittown?
How many residents did it have?
1947 Hempstead
80,000
How many Black American migrated North in the Great Migration 1910-70?
6 mill
In 1960’s the average American family had what % more purchasing power than in the 50s?
30%
How much more $ was spent on entertainment as a result of teenage consumerism in 1958?
$1.5 bil
How many record players were owned by 1959?
10 mil
When was the Organization Man written?
How many copies were sold?
1956
2 mil
What % of homes had TV by 1960?
90%
When was Blue Denim and South Pacific?
1959 (Blue denim)
1958 (South Pacific)
What poem did Allen Ginsberg write?
Howl
How many Beats became writers?
150
What % of BA couldn’t vote in 1955?
80%
What was the average cost of educating a Black child vs a white child?
$49 vs $179
When was Emmett Wilson killed after wolf whistling a woman?
1955
When did the NAACP begin?
1909
When was the Brown Ruling?
1954
When was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1955
How many made up Montgomery’s black population who supported the bus boycott?
50,000
What ruling desegregated buses in Montgomery?
Browder vs Gayle 1956
After Browder v Gayle, how many car loads of KKK members drove through Montgomery’s black neighbourhoods?
40
How did the KKK’s membership increase by the 70s?
Tripled
What did the White Citizen’s Council’s membership peak at in 1956?
250,000
Economic pressures on CR activists from the White Citizen’s council → how many BA losing their jobs in Mississippi?
53
When was the Little Rock Crisis?
How many Black Student where involved in it?
1957
9 Black students
How many Black Girls died in a bombing in Birmingham after the Birmingham Campaign?
4
How many marchers were part of the Washington March?
250,000
According to JFK what % of USAs lived in appalling condition in cities?
70%
How many jobs did the 1961 Area Redevelopment Act create?
26,0000
Despite 1961 Area Redevelopment Act, how many people remained unemp?
5 mil
How did the Minimum Wage Act ^ min wage?
How many weren’t covered?
$1 → $1.25
3.6 mil not covered (1/2 of USA’s poorest)
How much $ did the 1961 Omnibus Housing Act give to existing programmes?
$5bil
How many were fed through the Food Stamp Programme?
What did the cost the gov annually?
240,000
$22mil
How many countries did the Peace Corps help?
44
What % of USAs approved of peace corps?
71%
By how many did JFK ^ the num of military and advisors in Vietnam?
1,000 when he entered → 20,000 when he left
When was Sputnik?
When was flopnik?
1957
A month later
How much was spent on Apollo 11? What did the cost per American?
$40 mil
£225
What book triggered the environmentalist movement in the US?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 1962