Social Change Part 2 - 1930-1960s By debloftsgard May 23, 1896 Plessy v Ferguson May 23, 1909 NAACP May 23, 1929 Stock Market Crash May 23, 1929 Owning STock: buying on margin / specuation May 23, 1929 Black Tuesday Period: May 23, 1929 to May 23, 1941 Great Depression May 23, 1930 Gov't oops: Hawley-Smoot Tariff and low tax rates May 23, 1932 Dust Bowl May 23, 1933 Hoovervilles, Shantytowns, hobos=Unemployment May 23, 1933 FDR - 1st Hundred Days May 23, 1933 concentration camps May 23, 1933 extermination camps - Aushwitz May 23, 1933 Emergency Banking Relief Act May 23, 1933 Relief / Welfare acts: Ag Adjustment Acts, National Ind Recover Act, etc May 23, 1935 2nd New Deal: WPA, REA, SS Act, etc Period: May 23, 1935 to May 23, 1945 Holocaust May 23, 1936 Nuremberg Laws May 23, 1938 Kristallnacht May 23, 1939 John Steinbeck, Grant Wood, Walt Disney Period: May 23, 1939 to May 23, 1945 WWII May 23, 1941 Rosie the Rivetor May 23, 1941 A. Philip Randolph and E.O. 8802 - no discrimination in defense industries May 23, 1942 Wannsee Conference May 23, 1942 Bracero Program May 23, 1942 Japanese -Am Relocation May 23, 1942 Congress of Racial Equality May 23, 1943 Great Migration - RISE after Great Depression May 23, 1943 victory suits, victory gardens, E Bonds, etc May 23, 1944 Korematsu v the US Period: May 23, 1945 to May 23, 1961 Baby Boom May 23, 1946 Age of computers Period: May 23, 1948 to May 23, 1953 Juvenile Delinquency May 23, 1950 disposable income = purchase luxury items May 23, 1950 Woman = Happy Homemaker May 23, 1951 Rock n Roll May 23, 1954 Brown v Board of Education May 23, 1955 Polio vaccine May 23, 1955 Rise of TV on culture: Ed Sullivan, etc May 23, 1955 Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Nat King Cole May 23, 1955 Michael Harrington: The Other America May 23, 1955 Urban Renewal May 23, 1955 Termination Policy - Native Americans May 23, 1955 Rosa Parks May 23, 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott = SC ruling May 23, 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference May 23, 1957 LIttle Rock Nine May 23, 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 May 23, 1958 African Americans - push for equal pay as whites May 23, 1960 Sit Ins, Freedom Riders May 23, 1963 Birmingham Riots May 23, 1964 War on Poverty - Johnson May 23, 1964 Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity May 23, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 May 23, 1965 The CounterCulture May 23, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 May 23, 1965 Watts Riots May 23, 1965 Selma March May 23, 1965 impact of counter cuture on fashion and art May 23, 1966 Black Power - Stokely Carmichael May 23, 1966 Black Panthers - Malcolm X May 23, 1968 MLK Jr. Assassination