“Strange Fruit,” performed by Billie

Holiday 1956

John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and advocate of “rollback”

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) Moderate, even

“liberal,” Republican Despises the lying

tactics of the demagogic McCarthy, but does little to try and stop his reign of terror

Joseph Welch (attorney for the U.S. Army) faces off against McCarthy during the televised June, 1954, Congressional

hearings

Stalin’s funeral in Red Square, March 1953

Stalin Finally DIES!!!

September, 1959, edition of Time magazine, featuring the smiling Nikita Khrushchev

Kim Il Sung’s bizarre and mysterious son, who took power in North Korea after his father’s death in 1994

French Colonial Indochina, including the modern-day nations of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

Ho Chi Minh with American, Allied, and Vietnamese backers, 1945

Ho Chi Minh proclaiming Vietnamese independence in 1945

Divided Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem meeting with President Eisenhower and Sec. State John Foster Dulles

Later photo of a typically armed and dressed Viet Cong soldier in an underground bunker and tunnel system

Sputnik Playing cards, c. 1959--receive the Sputnik card and you lose two turns in the “Space Race”

Francis Gary Powers with his U-2 spy plane

Image of Explorer I and the early logo for the National Air and Space Administration

Eisenhower at HomeEisenhower at HomeDomestically, Eisenhower took a very moderate approach

Disliked excessively big government, but not ideologically opposed to every element of the New Deal

Supported Social Security, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage A “liberal” Republican

Presidency did not mark a broad shift away from New Deal liberalism Democrats dominated in Congress after 1954

Although some minor economic downturns, by and large the economy thrived during the 1950s

Pent-up consumer demand from WWII Lack of competitors due to the destruction of Europe in WWII Government programs like the GI Bill that produced a new highly educated work

force Government investment in science and technology

But given his dislike of using the federal government to achieve social goals, Eisenhower was reluctant to take a strong role in the emerging Civil Rights movement

Truman arrives to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947, the first US president to do so

A racially integrated Army unit fighting in Korea

Segregated drinking water in Georgia, c. 1953

Linda Brown, the little girl in Topeka, Kansas, whose father filed suit after the school board forced her to go to a school more than a mile from her home when an all-white school was seven blocks away

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court which ruled in May of 1954 that “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” beginning the end of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson precedent

Emmett Till, a 14-year old Chicago boy who dared to whistle at a white woman

Emmett Till’s savagely beaten body—the price a black boy paid for whistling at a white women in the supposedly progressive America of the

1950s

Rosa Parks being arrested

Empty busses during the Montgomery Bus boycott

Section from the Montgomery municipal code requiring city

busses to segregate

Montgomery, Alabama, Klan members warn of the grave dangers of letting black people sit next to white people on busses

Montgomery Bus BoycottMontgomery Bus Boycott

Demonstrated blacks deeply desired freedom and equality and were willing to personally sacrifice to achieve it

Demonstrated power of organizing, civil protests, and the strength in numbers Laughed at the Klan rather than feared them

Brought to national prominence a new leader for black civil rights

Martin Luther King speaking at bus boycott rally, 1956

The 26-year old Reverend Martin Luther King, arrested during the Montgomery Bus Boycott

•Decidedly non-radical, reasonable leader, but passionate and inspiring

•Doctorate from Boston University in theology

•Believed civil rights would be won through Christian love and non-violent resistance

"If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled every day, don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate."

--Martin Luther King

Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, who rejected the Supreme Court’s ruling that all U.S. schools must integrate

Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard bars entry of the “Little Rock Nine” to Central High School, September 1957

Questions?Questions?

Attendance Quiz ThreeAttendance Quiz Three

In three or four sentences, briefly identify the historical significance of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott