Post WW2 Terms And People
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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BROWN V. BOARD
- Ended legal segregation in public schools
- The people who made up this story were ordinary people
- They were teachers,students,secretary's, and ministers
DIXIECRATS
- also called States’ Rights Democrat
- nominated Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president
- The Dixiecrats opposed federal regulations
- member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group
MODERNIZATION
- Modern society is industrial society.
- To modernize a society is, first of all, to industrialize it
- Industrialism is a way of life that encompasses profound economic, social, and cultural changes.
MECHANIZATION
- to introduce machinery into an industry especially in order to replace manual labor
- Mechanization of agriculture is rapidly following the breakthrough wheat
- Military to equip with tanks and other armored vehicles.
BRIGGS V. ELLIOT
- one of five cases that would eventually be combined into
- The brown vs board education
- ask for equal educational opportunities in Clarendon County
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
- The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race
- made it unlawful for an employer to "fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual
- " The final bill also allowed sex to be a consideration when sex is a bona fide occupational qualification for the job.
