Ch. 37 Flashcards

59487895	white collar worker	someone in a professional or clerical job who usually earns a salary	0
59487896	blue collar worker	factory worker or day laborer	1
59487897	Betty Friedan	American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW	2
59487898	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	Novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business.	3
59487899	The Organization Man	Written by William Whyte; attacked the way businesses wanted every employee to be just like the others to keep any individual from dominating or being a threat	4
59487900	The Affluent Society	By Galbraith; said that the nation's postwar prosperity was a new phenomenon...before, there used to be an "economy of scarcity" because of lack of resources and overpopulation, but due to the US's and other industrialized countries' technology, it was an "economy of abundance"	5
59487901	"Checkers Speech"	Given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. Said to have saved his career from a campaign contributions scandal.	6
59487902	McCarthyism	The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.	7
59487903	Montgomery bus boycott	In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.	8
59487904	"To Secure These Rights"	This was the title of a report published in 1947 by Truman's Presidential Commitee on Civil Rights. The report called for the elimination of segregation, and the following year, in 1948, Truman ordered the desegregation of the armed forces.	9
59487905	The Great Migration	The migration of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North. African Americans were looking to escape the problems of racism in the South and felt they could seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North.	10
59487906	Brown v. Board of Education	1954 Supreme Court case that found segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place	11
59487907	"sit-in"	nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave	12
59487908	brinkmanship	the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety)	13