Kent Chronicles

September, 2012

First Red Scare

• 1920’s• Palmer Raids

HUAC

• Hollywood Ten• Blacklists• Alger Hiss

Joseph McCarthySenator from Wisconsin

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/mccarthyism/1953_05_18_DDE_to_Bullis.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwDUpbQHJg&feature=related

http://eca.state.gov/education/engteaching/pubs/AmLnC/br60.htm

How bout here?

• Do you remember any incidence of people being removed for Communist activities?

Burgeoning Civil Rights in the 50’s

• Brown v. Board of Topeka (1954)• Desegregation of Little Rock, Arkansa (1957)

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

Brown v. Board

• Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson– Separate but equal

The Little Rock Nine

Montgomery Bus Boycott