APUSH 8.5 - The Fifties

Elvis Presley

Popular artist who stole songs from black artists without crediting or paying them, then recorded them himself.

Sloan Wilson

The person who wrote the novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, criticizing the societal structure of the family in this time period.

Alan Creed

The DJ that played Elvis on the radio for the first time, refers to it as "Rock and Roll "because it "Rhythm and Blues "refers to the black music.

Orval Faubus

Governor of Arkansas who was a central opponent to desegregation, which led to some problems in the subsequent years.

Blue collar

physical labor

White collar

non-labor positions

Little Rock Nine

The nine students were escorted by the National Guard into Central High School

Jack Kerouac

Figurehead of the beat movement

Beat Movement

Movement focusing on the rejection of society: going against all the conformity

The Problem with No Name

The conformative societal structure in a time where women are trying to get into the workplace

Rebels Without a Cause

Teenagers rebel against random stuff because average American teens have way better standards of living than ever before, so they’re not rebelling against too much, just casually authority

Rhythm and blues

Original name of “rock and roll” music

*Brown v. Board*

1954 case in which the NAACP was able to legally fight segregation, which was ultimately ruled unconstitutional under the 14th amendment and reversed the *Plessy v. Ferguson* decision

Rosa Parks

Secretary of the NWCP office in the Montgomery, Alabama area that planned a public protest in which she would refuse to move to the black section of the bus, sparkiing the Montgomery bus boycott

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

A novel that criticizes the societal structure of the family in this time period, especially the “yes man”, nonauthoritative structure of most white collar jobs