1945-1950
What was goin’ on?
History/Politics
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African American Timeline
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1941 –Roosevelt established a Fair Employment
Practices Committee to monitor discrimination against
blacks in defense industries.
1942 – First CORE sit in at a Chicago restaurant
1943 – A series of race riots across the nation. About
40 people were killed.
1944 – Black women permitted to enter WAVES
1945 – A huge anti-integration protest took place
outside schools in Gary, Indianna. 1000 white students
walked out of classes.
African American Timeline cont.
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1946 – Emma Clarissa Clement first black woman named
American Mother of the Year.
1947 – CORE sends freedom riders to the South to test the
Supreme Court’s ban against segregation in interstate bus travel.
-- Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers
1948 – Several Southern delegates walked out of the National
Democratic Convention after a strong civil rights plank was
adopted. They formed the Dixiecrat Party.
--The SC of the State of CA ruled that state law prohibiting
interracial marriages was unconstitutional.
Hispanic American History Timeline
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1940 – Raquel Welch (Raquel Tejada) born.
1942 – The Bracero Program permits Mexicans to do farm labor
in the Southwest while U.S. manpower is drained for the war
effort.
1943 – Zoot Suit Riots in L.A. Spearheaded by the press, it is a
campaign to persecute Mexicans. U.S. soldiers, sailors and
marines move through the barrios looking for Mexican youths in
Zoot Suits and beat them up. Authorities arrest the victims.
Mexican-Americans are proportionately overrepresented in the
armed services and are awarded proportionately more medals of
honor than any other ethnic group in the U.S.
Hispanic American History cont.
1947 – Ricardo Montalban goes to Hollywood
The American G. I. Forum is formed to protect
Hispanic Americans civil rights after a funeral
home in Three Rivers, TX refuses to bury a
Mexican American service man killed in action
in the Pacific.
1948 – Pancho Gonzalez wins the U.S. singles
tennis championships.
Music Art Culture
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American Folk Music
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Ecology Timeline
Costume History – 1940’s
Movie History
Writers of the 40s
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Robert Frost
William Carlos Williams
Eugene O’Neill
H.D.
Langston Hughes
E. E. cummings
Marianne Moore
Wallace Stevens
Gwendolyn Bennett
Zora Neale Hurston
Anzia Yezierska
Michael Gold
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Mary McCarthy
Meridell LeSueur
Mourning Dove
Margaret Walker
Steinbeck
Hemmingway
Warren, Ransom, Tate
Lillian Hellman
Nella Larsen
Claude McKay
Jean Toomer
Katherine Anne Porter