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County leaders in the 1950s and 1960s understood that economic advancement depended on the development of water resources sufficient for industrial expansion, better infrastructure such as roads, providing new and various county-wide services, increasing cultural resources, and operating local government in a business-like fashion.
- June 1, 1777
- Yanceyville
From the period of the 1950s through the 1970s, struggles for civil and social rights, equality, and justice swept the United States. At universities and colleges, students championed the Free Speech Movement, demanding their right to free speech, political protest, and academic freedom. African Americans struggled for civil rights, and many ...
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- The Postwar Booms
- Moving to The Suburbs
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Cold War & The Korean War
- 1950s Pop Culture
- 1950s Music
- Shaping The 1960s
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Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States. About 4 million babies were born each year during the 1950s. In all, by the time the boom ...
The baby boom and the suburban boom went hand in hand. Almost as soon as World War II ended, developers such as William Levitt (whose “Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would become the most famous symbols of suburban life in the 1950s) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modes...
A growing group of Americans spoke out against inequality and injustice during the 1950s. African Americans had been fighting against racial discrimination for centuries; during the 1950s, however, the struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life. For example, in 1954, in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education c...
The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War, was another defining element of the 1950s. After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called “expansive tendencies”; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism...
In the 1950s, televisions became something the average family could afford, and by 1950 4.4 million U.S. families had one in their home. The Golden Age of Television was marked by family-friendly shows like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Twilight Zone and Leave It To Beaver. In movie theaters, actors like John Wayne, James Stuart, Charlton Hest...
Elvis Presley. Sam Cooke. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. The 1950s saw the emergence of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the new sound swept the nation. It helped inspire rockabilly music from Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. People swayed to The Platters and The Drifters. Music marketing, changed, too: For the first time, music began to target youth. On...
The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. However, that consensus was a fragile one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s.
The Elvic Oracle. The New Yorker. 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Rolling Stone. The Day The Music Died. Biography. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. Douglas T. Miller and Marion Novak.
Mar 6, 2019 · Brett Harvey reported in The Fifties: A Woman's Oral History that "the median marriage age dropped from 24.3 to 22.6 for men [during the decade], and from 21.5 to 20.4 for women." Today, just 20 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 are married, compared with 59 percent in 1960, according to the Pew Research Center.
- Morgan Greenwald
Apr 12, 2017 · After World War I ended, the spread of venereal disease caused alarm, spurring decisions like one made in a New York appeals court in 1918 that decided birth control was an effective medical ...
Mar 21, 2022 · Granit hotel. Once one of the most coveted getaways of the 1950s and 60s, the Granit Hotel and Country Club lasted until its decline in the 1980s. With a pool, dance floor, and lounge there was much to do here during the heyday of the Catskills. This destination was often popular with residents of Florida who would escape north for the summer ...
Jul 30, 2010 · Fashion in the 1970s. Models like Jane Birkin and Jerry Hall (who famously dated Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger) epitomized ‘70s style. Bell bottom pants, flowing maxi dresses, ponchos ...
