1. Read: Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years - Document Overview
2. Read: U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)
3. Read: Southern Declaration on Integration (1956)
4. Read: The Situation in Little Rock (1957), President Eisenhower

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1. View: Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. View: Good First Impression
3. View: Democratic Convention, 1956

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1. View: Election of 1952
2. View: Postwar Alliances: The Far East
3. View: Postwar Alliances: Europe, North Africa, The Middle East

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1.  Senator Richard Nixon recording of a speech denying allegations of financial impropriety                  ("Checkers" speech), c. 1952
2.  Governor Adlai Stevenson recording of a campaign address, c. 1952
3.  Secretary of State John Foster Dulles recording addressing the fall of Dien Bien Phu, c. 1954
4.  Senator Joseph McCarthy recording of his adddress to the Chicago Irish Fellowship Club on the                  threat of communism, c. 1954
5.  Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev recording of "The Kitchen Debates," 1959

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1.  Fire in Chicago, 1955

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