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Native Son- The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s
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New York's Paramount Theatre on December 30, 1942
First Solo -
First exhibition in New York at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery
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Equitable Savings and Loan building
Portland, Oregon
It was the first tower to be sheathed in aluminum, the first to use double-glazed window panels, and was the first to be completely sealed and fully air-conditioned -
The digital computer, named ENIAC, weighing 30 tons and standing two stories high, was completed in 1945.
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Levittown began sales to the planned suburban community.
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Jackie Robinson became the first black professional baseball player - in fact, the first black professional athlete outside of boxing.
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Full Fathom Five by Jackson Pollock. One of his first drip paintings.
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Lee Krasner (Married to Jackson Pollock) Female abstract artist
