Chapter 14 Test - Postwar America

author of the play A Raisin in the Sun, about a working-class African American family

mountainous region of the United States that stretches from Georgia to New York

African American musician who recorded hit rock ’n’ roll songs in the 1950s

States’ Rights, or Dixiecrat, Party candidate for president in 1948

beat poet who criticized modern American life for its sterility, conformity, and emptiness

early computer that handled business data

researcher who developed an oral vaccine for polio

the largest public works program in American history

work that takes place mostly in offices, instead of in factories

term for the cultural separation between children and their parents