The "affordability" of the automobile in the 1950s changed American culture.
Affordability is in quotes because the automobile manufacturers did something tricky. They got the US government to pay for the building and maintenance of roads.
So, unlike the train system where the train companies have to build and maintain tracks, the auto makers only had to make the cars.
This reshaped our country, allowing roads and cars to become the primary means of transportation in the country. In turn, people could then live outside of cities allowing suburbs to be created and fast food restaurants to be invented for people in the car on the go.
The U.S government set out to dispossess the Native Americans of their remaining rich lands and drive them westward.
The resignation of President Nixon ended a chapter in the relationship of politicians and the media and began a new one.
Politicians were now much more hesitant around the media and the media saw a new role for themselves as investigators in a way not seen since the muckrackers.
The Delano grape strike was a labour strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and lasted more than five years. Due largely to a consumer boycott of non-union grapes, the strike ended with a significant victory for the United Farm Workers as well as its first contract with the growers.
The strike began when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, mostly Filipino farm workers in Delano, California, led by Philip Vera Cruz, Larry Itliong, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage.[1][2][3] One week after the strike began, the predominantly Mexican-American National Farmworkers Association, led by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Richard Chavez,[4] joined the strike, and eventually, the two groups merged, forming the United Farm Workers of America in August 1966.[3] The strike rapidly spread to over 2,000 workers.
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