Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The changing political environment
- Anti-communist policies 1953-62 - 2nd RED SCARE
- Liberalism
- optimistic
- friendly
- Knew working with the media was important but often minimised - missile gap issure
- organised - regular briefings
- worked well with Congress
- long-term planning sessions
- The quest for civil rights
- 1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1954 - Brown vs Board of Education
- Martin Luther King Jr
- 1957 - The Little Rock Campaign
- 1960 - Greensboro sit-ins
- 1961 - The Freedom Rides
- 1960 - Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- 1956 - 102 Southern Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto - condemning B v BoE
- 1957 - Civil Rights Act sets up the Civil Rights Commission
- 1953 - House of Representatives passed a resolution for "termination"
- 1953-1958 - Operation ******* - deportation on illegal Mexican immigrants
- Lavender Scare
- 1958 - The Supreme Court refused to let the postal service ban a gay magazine as "obscene"
- Society and culture in change
- 1957 - USSR first to put a satellite in space
- SUBURBS
- Growing schools, leisure facilities etc.
- 1958 - Education Act
- American Dream for American Women - labour-saving devices
- 1954 - 1st suburban shopping mall opened - Detroit
- I Love Lucy - SHOW
- 1957 - Betty Friedan - planning a book of women and work
- various "refugee acts"
- 1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba - next 3 years - 20,000 fled
- Cuban Refugee Program
- 1957 - Refugee-Escapee Act
- FILM - Hays Code
- 1952 - Eisenhower used TV "air" time for campaign
- 1953 - 80% TV recorded LIVE - 1960 - 36%
- The changin quality of life
- "baby boom"
- Consumerism
- 1958 - 45 million transistor radios
- Sunbelt
- 1952 - $169.7 billion in circulation - 1960 - $215.8
- Increasing standard of living - running water, electricity. etc.
- 1955 - Davy Crockett - $100 million sales of racoon-skin caps
- "pester power"
- Coca Cola - 1959 - $79.1 million before tax
- Teenage consumption
- 1958 - The Blob
- 1960 - more WHITE collar workers (35 million) than BLUE collar workers (32 million)
- increasing spectator spor5ts
- knock-on effects of car ownership
- 1953-1961
- REPUBLICAN
- The changing political environment
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