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Between the years of 1945 and 1960, the per capita income had rose by five-hundred dollars to 1845 dollars for every single man, woman, and child in the entire country.
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The Taft-Hartley Act was a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft.
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President Harry S. Truman announces, in his State of the Union address, that every American has a right to expect from our government a fair deal.
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The T.V show I Love Lucy becomes a big hit in 1950.
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In 1950, there was an estimated 78.3 million Americans that were born during the large boom in births.
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It made schools separate by race.
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An African American woman who refused to get up from her seat on the bus for a while person.
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John Keat's debut as an author was due to a book called The Crack in the Picture Window.
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Eisenhower wins the election.
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This Act was enacted on June 29, 1956. Dwight Eisenhower actually signed the bill into law.
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The citizens of the United States feared that schools of the Soviet Union were superior to American schools, and so the Congress had reacted by adding the act to take United States schools up to speed so they weren't far behind.
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The Life Magazine came out with a large issue concerned about Education.