1950's civil rights

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  1. 3. The construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s was a major public works project that occurred alongside the civil rights movement
  2. 6. was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s
  3. 7. was a major factor in the economic prosperity of the 1950s, but it also contributed to racial inequality and resentment that fueled the Civil Rights Movement
  4. 9. primarily focused on containing communist expansion during the Cold War, President Harry S. Truman significantly advanced the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s by issuing Executive Order 9981
  5. 11. led the Supreme Court to landmark civil rights decisions in the 1950s, including the unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools
  6. 12. a 13-month protest that began in December 1955 to end racial segregation on public buses
  7. 13. in 1955 was a pivotal event in the American civil rights movement
  8. 14. created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties
  9. 15. Julius and Ethel...
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  1. 1. a Cold War crisis in 1948 that cut off land access to West Berlin
  2. 2. The 1950s were a time of both the civil rights movement and the...
  3. 4. Rights movement in the 1950s gained momentum with the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. 5. was convicted of perjury in 1950
  5. 8. the federal government's cautious approach to actively enforcing desegregation laws in the South, aiming to gradually limit the spread of segregation rather than forcefully dismantling it immediately
  6. 10. racial segregation in the suburbs was enforced through discriminatory housing practices, zoning laws, and violence
  7. 16. Parks Refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955