Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (139 page)

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and communism,
207

invaded by North Korea,
151

military,
220

vital interest to U.S.,
172

See also
Korean War

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC): Albany Movement,
472
–73

and Civil Rights Act of 1964,
544

and COFO,
552

and CORE,
473

established,
406

and Meredith march,
658

and NAACP,
473

activity in Selma,
579
–83

and sit-ins,
471

and SNCC,
432

and Voting Rights Act of 1965,
579

Southern Conference for Social Welfare,
41

Southern Manifesto,
398

Southern Strategy,
702
,
730
,
731
,
741

Soviet Union.
See
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Space program,
453
,
491
,
762

Sparkman, John,
253

Special Forces,
490
,
510
,
511
,
517
,
600

Spellman, Francis Cardinal,
182
,
188
,
297
,
360

Spock, Benjamin,
77
,
339
,
630

Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
,
362

Sports,
20
,
315
–26,
382
–83,
452
,
453
,
689

Sports Illustrated
,
315
,
354

Sputnik,
288
n,
418
,
419
,
420
,
421
,
422

Stalin, Josef: American opinion of,
101
,
103
,
113
,
114
,
170

and atomic bomb,
108
,
111
,
119
,
205

and China,
172

and Cold War,
85
–91,
106
,
107
,
131
,
136

death,
234
,
279
,
291

denounced,
308

foreign policies of,
132

attacked by Khrushchev,
304

and Korea,
209

and McCarthyism,
199

Stanley, Augustus Owsley III,
669

Stassen, Harold,
158
,
251

States' Rights Democratic Party ("Dixiecrats"),
151
,
156

Steelman, John,
48

Stephens College,
367

Stevenson, Adlai E.,
253
,
271
,
367
,
406
,
690

and Kennedy,
459
,
492
,
500
,
506

1952 presidential campaign,
252
–256,
260

1956 presidential campaign,
305
,
309

and Nixon,
434
–35

and television,
257
–58,
259

and U.S. foreign policy,
291

Stilwell, Joseph,
170

Stimson, Henry,
5
,
22
,
58
,
82
–83,
9
–99,
100
,
103
,
118

Stokes, Carl,
653

Stokes, Thomas,
120

Stone, I. F.,
140
–41,
245
,
262
,
283
,
416
–17

Stone, Oliver,
521
n

Stonewall Inn,
449
,
711

Strategic Air Command,
168
,
287
,
505
,
784

Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT I),
747
,
779

Strauss, Lewis,
174
,
276

The Street
(Petry),
27
–28

Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID),
623
n

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): Albany movement,
472

and Civil Rights Act of 1964,
544

and COFO,
552

disarray of,
689

established,
408
,
432
,
443

expulsion of white members,
662

freedom rides,
470

and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
480

leadership,
471
,
655

March on Washington,
483

non-violence,
480

in Selma,
579
–83

sit-ins,
471
–72,
473

and Vietnam War,
617
,
629

and Voting Rights Act of 1965,
579
–80

and women,
645

Student protest,
446
,
449
,
450
,
455

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
686

disintegration of,
449
,
716
–17,
753

leadership of New Left,
443
,
444
,
623
–24

membership,
455
,
628

and the Vietnam War,
624
–25,
629

and women,
644
–45

Sturgis, Frank,
772

Suburbanization: and African-Americans,
26
–27,
28

and automobiles,
71
–72,
784

and baby boom,
811

and construction in 1940s,
11
,
72

criticism of,
74
,
75
,
333
–38,
340
–41

Levittown,
73

race relations,
734

and residential movement,
76

and schools,
572

and women,
362
,
366

and work,
323

Suez Crisis,
291
,
305
–8,
309

Sullivan, Ed,
350
,
372

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays,
88

Sun Belt,
530

Supplemental Security Income (SSI),
721

Supreme Court: on abortion,
566
n,
715

and aid to parochial schools,
18

and backlash,
668
,
701

and birth control,
35

Brown v.
Board of Education
,
388
–95

chief justices of,
95
,
228
,
388
,
715

civil liberties,
416
–17

and civil rights,
19
–20,
24
,
26
,
28
,
385
,
386
–95,
397
–99,
412
,
469
,
546
,
566
,
730
–31

and communism,
192
,
193

and discrimination,
724

and economy,
56
,
235

and housing,
75

justices of,
101
,
111
,
113
,
147
,
155
,
192
,
194
,
388
,
392
,
416
,
417
,
653
,
732
,
733

Montgomery bus boycott,
405
–6

ruling on Pentagon Papers,
757

and rights consciousness,
565
–68,
640
,
648
,
649
,
651
,
714
–15

school prayer,
444
–45,
565

Watergate decisions,
777

The Supremes,
626

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