Chapter 23 History Forum and Chapter 24 History Forum
Chapter 23: Watch the documentary on Jackie Robinson, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqizYxTxnjI)
Then answer 4 of the following questions:
1. It is said that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Discuss what is meant by this phrase. Does America today still have a color barrier?
How did Jackie Robinson’s off the field qualities influence Branch Rickey’s decision to sign him with the Brooklyn Dodgers? How do his teammates react?
What impact did Jackie Robinson have on civil rights and racial intolerance?
Andrew Young called Jackie Robinson a gentleman athlete. What does this phrase mean? To which athlete today could this term apply?
Briefly explain how suburban middle-class women related to work in the 1950s.
How did Lucy and Ricky and Ethel and Frank portray each others’ jobs in the home and outside the home?
How the Job-Placement agent act toward Lucy and Ethel?
How was the manage at the candy factory portrayed, as masculine or as feminine?
How did Lucy and Ethel and Ricky and Frank fail at their respective switched jobs? Use the video as a Primary Source: connect it to what you read in your textbook and how it illuminates wider trends about gender roles in the late 1940s through the mid-1960s.
Finally, when people refer to “the good old days” or to when America was “great,” they mean the 1950s. Why do you think some people think it was “great?” Do you think it was? Why or why not? (Consider also the video you watched on Jackie Robinson when you answer this question, as well. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqizYxTxnj)