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Republicans win control of both houses of Congress in November elections.
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Two thousand rental houses in a former potato field on Long Island, thirty miles from Midtown Manhattan. By 1951 the new community contained more than seventeen thousand homes. So many babies were born in Levittown that it soon became known as "Fertility Valley" and "the Rabbit Hutch."
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Truman orders end to segregation in armed forces.
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Minimun wage raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour in 1949.
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A series of reform measures proposed by Truman in 1949 including aid to education, civil rights measures, and national medical insurance.
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Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1950.
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Reminton Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marked commercially.
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Edward R. Murrow inaugurates television news show See it Now.
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Mcdonald's chooses the golden arches as the design for its hamburger shops.
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The Supreme Court was unanimous in its 1954 decision in teh cas of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Supreme Court ordered schools to be desegregated.
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Dr. Jonas Salk reports the success of antipolio vaccine. Polio was considered the most frightening public health probelm at the time.
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African Americans began to boycott the Montgomery, Alabama, bus company.
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Eisenhower signed the legislation creating the interstate highway system. Congress appropriated funds for a 41,000-mile interstate highway system consisting of multilane divided expressways that would connect the nation's major cities.
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Eisenhower wins the votes, the American people enjoying the abundance oth the 1950's and content with legislative inaction.
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Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an orginization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to direct the crusade against segregation.
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Charles Van Doren confesses to cheating on the television quiz show Twenty-one.
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Passed in response to Sputnik, it provided an opportunity and stimulus for college education for many Americans.
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African American college students staged a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Post-World War II Americns idealized the family. The birthrate drastically increased.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a radical group advocating black power.
