Pretend you are a typical white middle-class teenager in the late 1950s. What is going on in your life? What do you like to do? What do you worry about? What is your view of national and world events? Who are your heroes? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
In the 1950s, the lives of middle class teenagers focused on cars, dating, and rock and roll music. They probably expected to go to college, enter a profession, and make a better living (be able to afford more consumer goods) than their parents. World events were peripheral, although teenagers were aware that "the bomb" could destroy the world. Rock and roll performers, television personalities, and sports figures were likely to be the teenagers' heroes.
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A) Black men were supposed to keep their hats on in the presence of a white person. B) Black and white people could shake hands, but only if the black person looked the white person in the eye. C) Black men were never to look at, and certainly never to touch, white women. D) Blacks should behave coldly in the expectation that whites would treat them with respect.
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a. Maryland b. Connecticut c. Pennsylvania d. New York e. Rhode Island
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a. permanently isolating oneself from the rest of humanity. b. practicing excessive asceticism. c. following the "Middle Path." d. practicing karma exercises. e. avoiding agricultural projects.