• Breton woods system- all about the modern state of liberalism. cold war liberalism- think about a combination of new deal programs to promote financial situations and free trade. earliest liberals were people in the enlightenment to promote religious diversity a.ka liberalism. Liberalism→ diverse and free and economically free market. and laissez faire

CCOT: 1950’s to 1920’s, middle class white people had it made and consumerism were boosted great Gatsby romanticize of Americans.

• Consumer culture→ 1950 nation of consumers. coco cola is an icon.

• co-cola and food used for bribes for containment.

middle class was growing, the suburbs begin

• ROCK AND ROLL

  • originated from African American rhythm and blues

• Baby Boom

  • lots of babies were being born

• Betty Friedan

  • wrote book called feminine mystique, founder of 2nd wave feminist movement. Traditional and conventional movement, though wanted manly protection. critical of traditional gender roles.

• LGBT was discriminating against and mental health issues

Court cases

Brown vs board of education challenged Plessy VS Ferguson —> segregate to integrate schools.

RED LINING

• derived from the New Deal. Meant that people of color were limited in terms of where they could live.

President Dwight _ added to the supreme court before the watershed cases and regretted and did too much too fast

Dwight did it for the students

Eisenhower didn’t like Earl Warren

1956—> 101 members of of congress didn’t like that he desegregated schools.
less than ¼ of the schools attempted to integrate at all. Governors Orval Faubus is a lunatic and needs to go. Called the army on kids

• MLK

  • gave prominence after the Montgomery bus boycott, the result of the bus boycott. member of the baptist church and involved in desegregation efforts.

Civil rights act was meant to encouraged more voting freedom but it failed to enforce any voting rights.

• there were literacy tests for the colored people, and polling taxes where bribes were taken for votes, and violence.

Freedom rides

• usually starting in dc bus full of activist going down to the south and advocating for civili rights, usually got beat up.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT PASSED IN 1954

VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965: federal commissioners allowed African Americans to vote; prohibited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race

BLACK PANTHERS PARTY: the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the era's most influential militant black power organization. Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality; many of the leaders were killed by the FBI

MALCOLM X WAS NOT AS EXTREME AS THE PANTHERS