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Income
between 1945-1960 per capita disposable income rose by $500 to $1845 for every man woman and child in the country -
Baby And Child care
written by Benjamin Spock, was first published on 14 July 1946, and is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies, and it has been translated into 39 languages -
Levittown
Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. founded by William Levitt, who built the district as a planned community between 1947 and 1951. William Levitt is considered the father of modern suburbia.Levittown was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country -
Taft Hartley Act
a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill" -
Truman Speech
State of the union address in which he said he was looking forward to advancing a liberal legislative agenda -
Baby Boom
the dramatic post-World War II baby boom (1946-1964). There are an estimated 78.3 million Americans who were born during this demographic boom in births.The term is a general demographic one and is also applicable to other similar population expansions. -
Religion
Organized religion flourished with church and synagogue attendance rising in the new communities -
I Love Lucy
One of the most popular television programs of the 1950s, a situation comedy featuring real life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo -
Convergence
a typically complex work of varied colors by jackson pollock -
Brown v. BOE of Topeka
"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" overturned plessy v ferguson -
Rosa Parks
refused to get up from her seat and move to the back of the bus for a white man, sparked the montgomery bus boycott. -
Mall
1st enclosed air-conditioned mall the southdale shopping center opened outside minneapolis -
The Crack in the picture window
John Keat's debut as an author; a broadside at sprawling suburban housing developments -
highway act of 1956
enacted on June 29, 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. With an original authorization of 25 billion dollars for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 20-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time -
Election of 1956
Republican Eisenhower beats Democratic Stevenson -
Unemployment rise
Despite economic boom, unemployment rose a sharp 7 % from 1957-1958 -
on the road
Jack Keroac set the tone for the new beatnik movement -
Launch Fail
The US Vanguard rocket explodes during its launch -
Life
Life magazine runs a 5 part story on the crisis in education -
NDEA
The NDEA was influenced by the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The launch shook the provided funding to United States education institutions at all levels. American belief that the USA was superior in Math and Science to all other countries. The citizens of the United States feared that schools of the Soviet Union were superior to American schools, and Congress reacted by adding the act to take US schools up to speed. -
Big Prize Shows Scandal
Charles Van Doren confessed he had been given the answers in advance to win $129,000 on Twenty One. Thus all the big prize quiz programs were quickly dropped
