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Baby Boomers
29 million babies are born in the 1950 -
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
This was a United States Supreme Court case that reversed a lower court decision upholding the efforts of the University of Oklahoma to adhere to the state law requiring African-Americans to be provided graduate or professional education on a segregated basis. -
Korean War
June 25, 1950- July 27, 1953 The Korean War was a driving force behind integration efforts during the early years of the civil rights movement. President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order integrating the armed services in 1948, something that had been recommended by his Commission on Civil Rights, but it was the Korean War, which helped truly initiate that integration. -
Briggs v. Elliott
In 1952 the Supreme Court heard the case and returned it to the district court for rehearing after Clarendon County school officials sent a report on progress in making facilities equal. The Court found that progress had been made towards equality.
Thurgood Marshall argued that this may be true, but that the real issue was that as long as separation existed, the schools would be unequal. -
University of Rochester
1) In 1955, the separate colleges for men and women were merged into "The College"
-The College was the UofR's College of Arts Sciences and Engineering
-Mainly a school for Sciences and Engineering
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Federal Security Agency
For a time, the agency oversaw food and drug safety as well as education funding and the administration of public health programs and the Social Security old-age pension plan. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the "Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953." Which in 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Was a major decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protect -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress at Montgomery Fair got on the same bus as she did every night in Montgomery, Alabama. When the bus became full she refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation - sometimes referred to as Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks' refusal to leave her seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement -
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4.3 million babies are born
This year has the most babies born during the 'Baby Boomer Era' -
The Cat in the Hat
This book was created by Ted Geisel.
Geisel's friend William E. Spaulding proposed that Ted write and illustrate such a book for six- and seven-year olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading. Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat in the Hat, which used 223 words that appeared on the list plus 13 words that did not. -
Launch of Sputnik
The launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial Earth orbiting satellite was a triggering event. After Sputnik the federal government took several remarkable actions like:
1)Congress created NASA
2) They tripled funding for the National Science Foundation to support basic research but also to improve science education and draw more young Americans into science and engineering
3) They passed the National Defense Education Act
