“How did the cold war domestic agenda impact the rights of american citizens?”
How have popular movements & ideologies impacted the rights of Americans since Reconstruction?
How did the Civil Rights Movement result in an increase in rights for various groups, (e.g. African American, Women, LGBTQ)
Civil Rights
“To what extent did the struggles between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ shape the inter-war years?”
The Inter-War Years
Domestic Front Unit - Current Context Map
Creating an “Other”
Historical Thinking
- Cause & Consequence
Unit Compelling Question: How does mass hysteria over national security allow for the “otherizing” of specific groups of Americans over time?
Cold War Domestic Policy: Lavender Scare
How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the criminalization of LGBTQ community
Causes:
Q: How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the Lavender Scare?
- Sex Psychopath Statutes, DSM Classification,
- FBI Investigations.
Resulting Actions:
Q: How did the Lavender Scare impact the rights of the LGBTQ population?
- Senate Commission
HT: Cause & Consequence
Next Unit: Civil Rights Movement
Prior Unit: WWII
Domestic Front of the Cold War
Course Question: How have popular movements & ideologies impacted the rights of Americans since Reconstruction?
Contemporary Implications: Connecting the Past to Today
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety
Q: What is an appropriate response to current and proposed immigration policies?
HT: The Ethical Dimension
Literacy Strategy: Jigsaw, Research Presentations, Civic Action
Current Anti-Immigrant Sentiments
Post 9/11 Anti-Immigrant ideology
Lesson Q: How has immigration policy changed since the beginning of the 21st century?
Historical Thinking (HT): Change & Continuity
Literacy Strategy: Progress/Decline timeline
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Today’s Events
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Teaching Thesis: The ‘otherizing’ that we’re witnessing in today’s current anti-immigrant climate shares features with the post WWII Red Scare that blacklisted leftists and Lavender Scare that criminalized the LGBTQ community. Popular feelings about events & conditions of the time were exploited to marginalize and criminalize citizens. These precedents can help us understand the popular support for, and resistance to, the current anti-immigrant policies being promoted by the Trump administration.
Cold War Domestic Policy: Red Scare
How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the blacklisting of leftist Americans?
Causes:
Q: How did the Cold War domestic agenda lead to the Red Scare?
- World War II
- Russia and Eastern European Bloc
Resulting Actions:
Q: How did the Red Scare impact the rights of left wing Americans?
- Investigations (HUAC) & McCarthy
- Loss of Jobs
HT: Cause & Consequence
Lavender Scare Topic
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how LGBTQ people lost rights as one consequence of McCarthyism
Shifting Beliefs in Homosexuality
- Hoover Quote
- Miller Sex Psychopath Law
- DSM 1
- Executive Order 10450
How did sentiments towards gay men and women in Washington DC change during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s?
Continuity and Change Guidepost 4: Progress and Decline are broad evaluations of change over time. Progress for one may be decline for another.
Next Topic: Contemporary Implications
Prior Topic: Red Scare
Lavender Scare
Course Question: How have popular movements & ideologies impacted the rights of Americans since Reconstruction?
Unit Question: How does mass hysteria over national security allow for the “otherizing” of specific groups of Americans?
Consequences of the Lavender Scare
- Loss of jobs
- Criminal Prosecution
- FB Sex Deviate Program
- Sodomy prosecution graph
By criminalizing homosexuality, how did the Lavender Scare limit opportunities for gay men and women America beginning the 1950s?
Cause and Consequence Guidepost 1 and 5: �1) Change results in a complex web of interrelated short-term and long-term consequences.
5) The events of history were not inevitable, any more than those of the future are.
Federal Employment of Gay Men and Women during the 1940s
- Washington DC as a “Gay Boom Town”�- Civil Service Jobs
- Acceptable “Out” atmosphere
Why did the percentage of gay men and women in federal employment increase during the 1930s and 1940s?
Cause and Consequence Guidepost 2: The causes of a particular historical event vary in their influence, some are more important.
The Lavender Scare
Senate Hearing Commission Report:
- General Unsuitability
- Security Risk
- Recommendations
- Personnel and Criminal
How did the federal government use national security as a justification for banning gay men and women from federal employment and criminalizing homosexual activity?
Cause and Consequence Guidepost 2: The causes of a particular historical event vary in their influence, some are more important than others.
Historical Thinking
- Cause & Consequence
- Continuity & Change
Content Focus Question: How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the criminalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans?
Teaching Thesis: United States’ desire for a “safer” America and perceived need to protect its people from threats to national security led the Federal government to criminalize LGBTQ Americans causing them to lose their jobs, their community, and for some their lives.
Domestic Front Unit - Current Context Map
Creating an “Other”
Cold War Domestic Policy: Lavender Scare
How did the conditions at the time lead to the criminalization of, and resistance by, the LGBTQ community?
Topics
- Sex Psychopath Statutes, DSM Classification,
- FBI Investigations
- Senate Commission,
Next Unit: Civil Rights Movement
Prior Unit: WWII
Domestic Front of the Cold War
Course Question: How have popular movements & ideologies impacted the rights of Americans since Reconstruction?
Contemporary Implications: Connecting the Past to Today
Q: What is an appropriate response to current examples �of ‘otherizing’?
Engagement: Deliberative Discourse, Student Civic Action Project
Current Examples of ‘Otherizing’
Post 9/11 ideology
Lesson Q: How are different groups being targeted in today’s world?
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Cold War Domestic Policy: Red Scare
How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the blacklisting of leftist Americans?
Topics
- Context: World War II, - Russia and Eastern European Bloc
- Investigations (HUAC) & McCarthy
- Loss of Jobs
Resistance and Emergence of LGBTQ Rights
How did the oppression of LGBTQ people lead to resistance and change?
Topics:
- Gay rights activitists
- Publications
- Organizing effort / demonstrations
Unit Question: How can specific groups of Americans become “otherized” in our society?
Teaching Thesis: The ‘otherizing’ that we’re witnessing in today’s current anti-immigrant climate shares features with the post WWII Red Scare that blacklisted leftists and Lavender Scare that criminalized the LGBTQ community. Popular feelings about events & conditions of the time were exploited to marginalize and criminalize citizens. Nonetheless, people’s resistance to these policies eventually led to significant social change. These precedents can help us understand the popular support for, and resistance to, the recent anti-immigrant policies.
Lavender Scare Topic Teaching Thesis
Lavender Scare Thesis Statement
The expansion of the Federal government in the 1930s and 1940s created a huge influx of office type jobs for young people in American. These jobs, mostly located in the DC metro area allowed gay men and women who were unwelcomed in traditional working class environments to work in more hospitable settings. With the passing of the Miller Sexual Psychopath Law, the DSM classification of gay men and women as sexual perverts and J. Edgar Hoover’s comments synonymizing homosexuality with sexual perversion and deviance Washington DC and the nation in the early 1950 became much less welcoming to gay men and women. As McCarthyism expanded, more and more pressure was placed upon the government to investigate homosexuals in the federal government as both potential spies and well as general unsuitability for being a representative of the federal government.
This lead to the Senate Investigation which concluded that gay men and women were unfit to work in federal government due to their ability to be blackmailed, their inability to keep secrets, and their general moral perversions. The committee’s recommendation to prevent gay men and women from working in the federal government was codified in n1953 through Executive Order 10450. Through the Lavender Scare’s criminalization of gay men and women; those who were known or even suspected homosexuals were investigated and subsequently lost their jobs, their community, and for some even their lives.
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Domestic Front Unit -Traditional Coverage Map
How the Cold War agenda negatively impacted the rights of women, leftists and gay men and women
Historical Thinking
- Cause & Consequence
Focus Question: How did the Cold War domestic agenda impact the rights of American citizens?
Next: Cold War International Policies
Prior Unit: WW II
Cold War Domestic Policies
Course-Level Question: What does it mean to be an American in modern times?
Women: How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the re-domestication of American women ?
Causes
How did the Cold War domestic agenda lead to a restriction on the political and economic rights of women?
- Rosie the Riveter
- Work Force
- Kinsey Sexual Report
Actions
How did the restriction on the political and economic rights of women change the everyday life of women in the 1950’s?
- Ad campaigns & Commercials
- TV Shows
Gay Men and Women: How did the conditions of the Cold War lead to the criminalization of LGBTQ Americans?
Causes
How did the Cold War domestic agenda lead to the Lavender Scare?
- Sex Psychopath Statutes
- DSM Classification
- FBI Investigation
Actions
How did the Lavender Scare impact the rights of gay men and women ?
- Senate Commission
- Executive Order 10450
- Loss of Jobs
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Teaching Thesis: For all three groups there was a significant and pervasive limiting of rights which, for all groups lead to among other things the loss of job opportunities and the ability to be economically independent. Additionally concerns over national security allowed for the federal government to scapegoat specific groups without push back from the nation at large. Lastly, these limitations on rights for all three groups, whether through federal law, social conventions, or state/local statute, had long term political, economic, and social consequences that set the tone of social views for years to come.
Communists & Sympathizers
How did the conditions of the Cold War lead the the blacklisting of leftist Americans?
Causes:
Q: How did the Cold War domestic agenda lead to the Red Scare?
- World War II
- Russia and Eastern European Bloc
Resulting Actions:
Q: How did the Red Scare impact the rights of left wing Americans?
- Investigations (HUAC) & McCarthy
- Loss of Jobs
HT: Cause & Consequence
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