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By natalier16431
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    Life in the 1950's

    white families moved to the suburbs, this was called suburbanization (fun fact the author’s family lived in a white suburban neighborhood during his childhood)
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    Life in the 1950's

    • there were communities called levittowns where every house was the same
    • this added to the critization of the conformity of the 1950’s, these criticisers were labeled as the beats
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    Life of 1950's

    -materialism was valued and it was a decade of consumerism
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    Life in the 1950's

    -the cold war was going on with the USSR, so everyone was paranoid; there were drills going on for what to do if there was an atomic bomb launched

  • Equality for public education

    On May 14, 1954, he delivered the opinion of the Court, stating that "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . ."

  • Brown v. Board

    1955: In Brown v. Board II, the Supreme Court held that school systems must abolish their racially dual systems, but could do so "with all deliberate speed."

  • Rosa Parks

    On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined.

  • Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956

  • first made satellite

    Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.

  • Cooper v. Aaron

    1958: The Supreme Court upheld the rule of law in Cooper v. Aaron, stating that official resistance and community violence could not justify delays in implementing desegregation efforts.

  • Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

    Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

  • Civil rights act

    Civil rights Act enacted, a landmark in legislation. U.S. outlawed discrimination of race, color, religion, sex, naional origin.

  • Last Racial Classification

    The state legislature of Louisiana repealed the last racial classification law in the United States.

  • First Black Astronaut

    Guion (Guy) S. Bluford, Jr. was the first black American astronaut to make a space flight on board the space shuttle Challenger

  • Federal Holiday for MLK

    President Ronald Reagan signed the bill establishing a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.