{"id":360,"date":"2015-08-21T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/ushistory2os2xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=360"},"modified":"2016-06-08T20:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:32:06","slug":"video-civil-rights-and-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-ushistory2os2xmaster\/chapter\/video-civil-rights-and-the-1950s\/","title":{"raw":"Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s","rendered":"Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s"},"content":{"raw":"This video\u00a0teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, this video\u00a0also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans, but there is more than a little idealizing going on here. The 1950s were a time of economic expansion, new technologies, and a growing middle class. America was becoming a suburban nation thanks to cookie-cutter housing developments like the Levittowns. While the white working class saw their wages and status improve, the proverbial rising tide wasn't lifting all proverbial ships. A lot of people were excluded from the prosperity of the 1950s. Segregation in housing and education made for some serious inequality for African Americans. As a result, the Civil Rights movement was born. The video\u00a0will talk about the early careers of Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and even Earl Warren. You will learn\u00a0about Brown v Board of Education, and the lesser known Mendez vs Westminster, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and all kinds of other stuff.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/S64zRnnn4Po?t=1s","rendered":"

This video\u00a0teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, this video\u00a0also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans, but there is more than a little idealizing going on here. The 1950s were a time of economic expansion, new technologies, and a growing middle class. America was becoming a suburban nation thanks to cookie-cutter housing developments like the Levittowns. While the white working class saw their wages and status improve, the proverbial rising tide wasn’t lifting all proverbial ships. A lot of people were excluded from the prosperity of the 1950s. Segregation in housing and education made for some serious inequality for African Americans. As a result, the Civil Rights movement was born. The video\u00a0will talk about the early careers of Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and even Earl Warren. You will learn\u00a0about Brown v Board of Education, and the lesser known Mendez vs Westminster, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and all kinds of other stuff.<\/p>\n