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AP U.S. History Postwar Prosperity and The 'Other' America
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on the postwar prosperity and the “other” America. She talks about economic realities, rise in gross domestic product, the affluent society, or the “other” America, Bretton woods system, economic trends in the 1950s, general electric, suburban living, Levittowns and tract housing. She also explains the negative effects of suburbanization, changing demographics, baby boom! “got to make up for lost time”, highway expansion, city “life belts”, car culture, the emerging civil rights movement, civil rights challenges, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and “massive resistance” against the case. The other key points are segregationists and the little rock nine, nonviolent protest, civil disobedience, social critics which is the Beats, Be-Bop Jazz, other culture dissenters, pop art, TV Culture, Rock and Roll and 1950s: Conformity or Rebellion and women's issues in the 1950s. Last but not least, she also illustrates the feminine mystique, other policies and demographic changes, the second migration from 1940 to 1970 and other demographic changes.
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