The document discusses several key events and people from the 1950s including:
1) Operation Wetback which deported over 1 million illegal immigrants from Mexico in 1954 under Eisenhower.
2) Jonas Salk who created the first polio vaccine in 1952, administering it first to children aged 6-9.
3) The Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 which overturned legal segregation of public schools and required desegregation "with all deliberate speed".
1. Modern Republicanism
• In all things that deal
with people, be
liberal. In all things
that deal with
money, be
conservative.
• It seemed like Ike just
hovered over issues
and never used the
power of the
Presidency!
2. Operation Wetback (1954)
• Increasing numbers of
illegal aliens in the
1950’s
• US orders deportation of
1.4 million Mexicans
• Most voluntarily went
back to Mexico
• Others put on boats or
trucks and taken to
Mexican Southern
border
• Ike’s Popularity
3. Jonas Salk
• Created vaccine for
Polio in 1952
• Polio attacks the
nervous system
(paralysis)
• Headquartered at
University of
Pittsburgh
• First dose given to 2
million kids aged 6-9
5. Baby Boom
• 76 million kids born
between 1945-1964
• 94% of men, 97% of
women got married!
• Oldest Boomers turn
66 this year!
• Means that they can
start accepting early
Social Security
• Today, 28% of the
population!
7. Brown vs. the Board of Education
• 1954-Topeka, Kansas
• Linda Brown
• 8 year old
• Has to walk 2 miles in
order to attend a “Black
School”
• Wants to attend the
“White” School that is ½
mile away
8. Brown cont.
• Brown family takes
decision to court
• Overturns Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896)
• Things can be “separate if
they are equal”
• Decision by Warren Court
• Judicial Activism-Supreme
Court will solve social issues
if someone else won’t
• Schools should be
desegregated “With All
Deliberate Speed”
10. Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1955-Montgomery, AL
• Rosa Parks sits down on a
bus
• As the bus fills, she needs to
move to the back of the
bus!
• She doesn’t-She is arrested
w/$10 fine
11. Boycott cont.
• Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
organizes a boycott
• How??
• Churches
• King was arrested and held
for 2 weeks
• Boycott went on for 381
days
• In the end, Montgomery
finally allowed bus riders
to sit where they wanted
& city starts to integrate!
