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ERA 9: 1945-1980
Postwar United States
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1946
Servicemen return from abroad after World War II.
Returning GIs participate in a shakeup of political and racial order in Tennessee
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Rising Expectations after WWII
Rising expectations and social mobility generated by World War II
“How’re you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?”…and in their place.
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Battle of Athens, TN: August 1, 1946
Ex-GIs and supporters of the entrenched political machine engage in gunbattle on the streets of Athens
The Battle of Athens in McMinn County leads to the overthrow of the local political machine, one tentacle of the powerful Crump machine
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Racial tensions during the postwar period: Columbia, TN, February 26, 1946
The civil rights ferment of the late 1940s and the 1950s is a response to changes after World War II. Racial conflicts arise throughout the country, including one between State Highway Patrol and African-American residents of Columbia’s “Mink Slide” neighborhood.
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Early Civil Rights Cases
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Clinton, TN: Problems surface after court-mandated desegregation in 1956
The Clinton desegregation lawsuit actually predated the Brown v. Board of Education case
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1954-1963: The struggle over civil rights merges with Cold War rhetoric
Segregation had long been part of the American way of life
Civil Rights movement seen as attack on pillar of Southern society: unAmerican, unChristian, and imported to region by outside agitators
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Battling against IntegrationSome citizens voice their support for segregation in letters to Governor Clement
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Integration was often linked with Communist agitation by outsiders and Northern “Yankees”
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The Communist Scare in the 1950sThe Communist Scare in the 1950s
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The post-World War II Nuclear Threat: The Cold War accelerates
The reality of the nuclear threat was made evident by the Bikini Atoll tests
In March of 1954, the U.S. tested a hydrogen bomb in Bikini. Later, in September, the Red Army tested an atomic bomb in the Urals
On May 14, 1955, the communist states signed the Warsaw Pact
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Civil Defense Efforts in America: The government publicizes safety manuals to both ignite and allay America’s fears
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The U.S. government prepares its citizens for what to do in case of nuclear attack
Americans learn to live with fear
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The Cold War moves into Space: Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Race
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite
Because of Sputnik, American leaders feared that the Soviets could launch ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons
The United States launched the Explorer in 1958; the U.S. authorizes the creation of NASA that same year.
Apollo 11 reaches the moon in July of 1969; from 1970-1971, an exhibit memorializing the successful mission travels throughout the country, including Nashville
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Anti-communist Inquisition: HUAC, McCarthyism, and the Highlander Folk School
The McCarthy Hearings in Congress (1953-1954) were mirrored in Tennessee by the General Assembly’s vendetta against the Highlander Folk School
The hearings were coordinated by the Joint Legislative Committee for the Investigation of the Highlander School in 1959
During the hearings, the Highlander School was linked with Communism
The hearings smeared Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and other Civil Rights leaders
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A 1959 Georgia Department of Education Publication linked the Highlander School with Communism and racial integration
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The Highlander hearings
Video clip from a film produced by Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver, You Got To Move
This clip documents the Tennessee General Assembly’s hearing against the Highlander Folk School that took place in 1959.
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TVA and the growth of the Military-Industrial Complex in Tennessee
TVA becomes the postwar provider of electrical power for the Department of Defense and Oak Ridge
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Nuclear Power in Tennessee
Y-12 Building at Oak Ridge complex (at right)
Experimental nuclear reactor with dome, Oak Ridge (below)
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TVA becomes the largest provider of nuclear power in Free World
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Enthusiasm for Nuclear Weapons
Enthusiasm for the power and promise of nuclear bombs sometimes reached the level of the absurd
U.S. nuclear monopoly before 1955 gave American foreign policy a very ‘big stick’
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Fun with nuclear power at Oak Ridge
Promise of nuclear power often out-weighed the threat (accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl had not yet occurred)
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Military Installations and Industries in Tennessee
Arnold Engineering Development Center located in Franklin and Coffee Counties
U.S. Air Force facility established in 1947 and dedicated by Truman on June 25, 1951
Truman hoped the facility would help the U.S. become the international leader of aeronautical development
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Military Installations and Industries
Vultee/AVCO Plant in Nashville
Raytheon in Kingsport Large amounts of military
spending came the South’s way because of powerful Southern senators
Milan Arsenal, Millington Naval Base, Fort Campbell
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Military Installations and Industries
ALCOA (Aluminum Corporation of America)
Produced aluminum for aircraft, which grew in demand during and after World War II
Plant located in Alcoa, Tennessee
Company has operated in Tennessee for approximately 90 years
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October, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis followed the 1961 Bay of Pigs incident
The apex of Cold War tensions; nuclear threat was real, and catastrophic consequences were only narrowly avoided
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1963-1973 The Vietnam War: Conflict abroad and unrest at home
LBJ and the escalation of the Vietnam War after 1964
“Domino Theory” as the dominant rationale of American foreign policy
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A soldier’s letters and photographs from Vietnam
Protracted and draining struggle against Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia
Experiences of one Tennessean, Christopher Ammons, when he served in Vietnam while in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1968 with the First Infantry Division, Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry; later, from 1969 to 1970, he was assigned to the 194th MP Company
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The Christopher Ammons Papers
Security platoon, 194th M.P., Vung Chua Mountain, Dec. 1969
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Letters home from Vietnam
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1960s Antiwar Protests and Youth Counterculture
Antiwar protests during the 1960s, largely because of conscription
Radicalization of college campuses San Francisco/Berkeley as an epicenter of youth
counterculture The Pill approved by the FDA in 1960; Women’s
Liberation movement Widespread experimental drug use Hippie culture amongst younger generation
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Protestors against the War
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Antiwar protest in Nashville during LBJ’s visit in 1967
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The Farm as a microcosm of Sixties counterculture
Hippie commune established near Summertown, Tennessee
Founded by in 1971 by Steve Gaskin and 250 followers
Focus on cooperative living, self-sufficiency, pacifism, organic farming, vegetarianism, midwifery, etc.
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ERA 9: 1945-1980 A period of accelerating change in American life
• The sacrifices of Depression and World War II were followed by global uncertainty, alienation, consumerism, and the growing influence of corporations• The Civil Rights movement, Cold War, Vietnam, and Watergate changed irrevocably American culture and society