Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws'Plessy v. Ferguson

President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz3Kx2zieXs

The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested.http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/1895_210

Plessy v. Ferguson

Jefferson is considered another worthlees black man in jail and the whites dont care

Jim Crow laws

1948Civil ' Equal Rights

President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."Read more: Civil Rights Timeline | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz3LbpN4ScW

Hog:A selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person

Truman committed the Democrats to civil rights. After the party splintered, Strom Thurmond ran as the candidate of the States’ Rights Party.Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1948-democratic-convention-878284/#Wm15RMzucRsqfSp1.99Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv

Technology ' ScienceScience: George A. Gamow (US) puts forth the "Big Bang" theory to explain the origin of the universe. Background: AstronomyRead more: Top News Stories from 1948 | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/year/1948.html#ixzz3MENWR1tS

In 1948 Buick announced that allits high-end Series 70 cars would be equipped with the Dynaflow automatic transmission system.http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-11/december-1948

“Literary terms”Potential: the Dynaflow is potential because it makes driving vehicles like cars and tanks easierMobility: the Dynoflow is great in mobility in terms of the acceleration of a vehicle

Movie:The Bicycle ThiefAuthor:Vittorio De SicaBest Foreign Film Oscar winnerBased on Luigi Bartolini's novel, the humanistic film was about the desperate economic plight of a prototypical Italian after the warhttp://www.filmsite.org/1948.html

Film, Music ' Literature of the Era

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948 was awarded to T.S. Eliot "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/

Artists Song Title Pee Wee Hunt Twelfth Street Rag