The 1950s

• THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

• CHART: Key Events in the American Civil Rights Movement 

• Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society 

• The History of Jim Crow - segregation from the 1870s-1950s. 

•   The Struggle for Civil Rights  

•   The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65  

• Early Civil Rights Struggles (1945-1955) 

• The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1965) 

• School Integration (1955-1975) 

•   Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education 

•   The Modern Civil rights Movement   

• USM Oral History Civil Rights Documentation Project 

•   Lynching in America  

  •   The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire  

The Fifties Index 

  American Cultural History - 1950-1959 

  Events, Trends, and People of the 1950s 

  1950s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology

  Multimedia Fifties 1950s home - A retro look at the Fifties

   A Biography of America: The Fifties

  America During the 1950's

  "The American 1950s": The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

  History of the US Highway System

    American Highway Project - Welcome to Roadside Peek - Roadside Architecture - Back On Tack - Roadside Attractions & Oddball Architecture - Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions 

  The Mother Road: Historic Route 66  

   ROUTE 66 - DETAILED ROAD DESCRIPTION 

  Do you love Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs? The Beat Generation Archive has loads of info on these poets and lots more to explore.

Drive In Theater is a terrific site to remember the good times spent with the bugs, the speaker that didn't work, and that special boy or girl. There are still a few of them around. This is a fun site.

**** Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

     The 1950s at Home, Michigan Historical Museum

  1957 Detroit Auto Show Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum - 1950s Cars to Color

1950s Guessing Game

Lubbock - Buddy Holly Center

Understanding American Pie - Interpretation of Don Mclean's epic song

  1956 to 1960 Juke Box

  1950s Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - 1950s Music

Hula Hoops

  1950s HOME ECONOMICS TEXBOOK 

  From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?

weblinks-The 1950s 

THE COLD WAR & KOREAN WAR

  Cold War - Korea - another page from my website with detailed links.

   Kipp Teague's RetroWeb - Civil Defense

1950s TV & FILM

Top TV Shows, 1950's 

  50s TV Shows

  TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 50s AND 60s 

  truth in advertising - a history - the 1950's 

  Early TV Game Shows

   Queen for a Day / Classic TV - Classic TV / Classic Television / TVparty!

TV in the 50's

Biography for Lucille Ball - Filmography for Lucille Ball 

    I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball - The Toon Tracker Animated Lucy Page

   The Hollywood Blacklist 

  Film History of the 1950s 

  Science Fiction Films and American Society in the Fifties - Science Fiction & Cold War Terror

  Images - Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and Fifties Horror Films

  Drive-In Theater

   For much more info, please visit my Television & Misc. Fine Arts and Motion Pictures, Movies, Film pages.

FASHION

  Fab Fashions from the Fifties - Cruisin' USA Cybermall  

  Flamboyant and Feminine - Women's Fashions of the 1950s 

  1950s Glamour Fashion History 1950s 

  1950's Fashion

  History of the Shopping Center and Mall 

For much more, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.

You just don't see this anymore......

Phone Booth Packing

Pay Toilets 

Milkmen 

• • 1950, $21.97 had the same value as $100 would have in 1986

  • 1950, The National Debt was $257, 357, 352, 351.04

  • 1950, The Population of the United States Was 151,325,798

  • 1950 June 1, Margaret Chase Smith, "Declaration of Conscience" 

  • [image and text]

  • 1950, Harvard University Professor, Ralph Bunche awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• 1950 December 10, William Faulkner, The Nobel Prize in Literature, Banquet Speech

• 1950-1954, Maps of the Korean War

  • 1951, $23.70 had the same value as $100 would have in 1986

  • 1951, The National Debt was $255, 221, 976, 814.93

• 1950-1954, Maps of the Korean War

• 1951, Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27

• 1951, Defense of Iceland: Agreement Between the United States and the Republic of Iceland, May 5

• 1951, Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines; August 30

• 1951, Security Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (ANZUS); September 1

• 1951, Military Facilities in the Azores: Agreement Between Portugal and the United States, September 6

• 1951, Recall of Gen. Douglas MacArthur

• 1951, Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan; September

• 1951, Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor

• 1951 November 14, Military Assistance Agreement Between the United States and Yugoslavia

• 1952 September 23, Richard M. Nixon, Television Address

  • [The "Checkers" speech]

• 1952, George Stith, an agricultural Worker, Describing the Importation of Mexican Immigrant Laborers into Arkansas

• 1952, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

  • [Even in wartime, the President must observe Constitutional limitations on his powers]

Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961

• 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural

• 1953, Mohammad Mosaddeq and the Coup in Iran

• 1953, The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953

  • [documentary collection of The National Security Archive

• 1953, Military Facilities in Spain: Agreement Between the United States and Spain, September 26

• 1953, Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea; October 1

• 1953, American GI Forum of Texas and Texas State Federation of Labor Speak Out Against the Importation of Mexican Workers (The "Bracero" Program)

• 1953, American GI Forum of Texas and Texas State Federation of Labor Speak Out Against the Importation of Mexican Workers (The "Bracero" Program)

• 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"

  • 1954, Former Secretary of State George Cattlett Marshall awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• 1954 July 20, Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam

• 1954, 8 September Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (Manila Pact

• 1954 Protocol to the Manila Pact, September 8

• 1954 Pacific Charter, September 8

• 1954 Joint United States-Chinese Statement; December 1

• 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of China; December 2

• 1954 Exchange of Notes Between the Secretary of State and the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, December 10

• 1954, Senate Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. [end of "Separate but Equal" principle]

  • 1954, Ernest Miller Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

• 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"

• 1955, Presidential Libraries Act

• 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"

• 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1957"

• 1958, Cooper v. Aaron

  • [Established that desegregation should proceed with "all deliberate speed"]

• 1958, Map of the US Marine in Beirut

• International Relations. 1958-60, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1958"

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1959"

• 1959 December 1, The Antarctic Treaty

• 1959, John F. Kennedy, Address to Southern Baptist Leaders

• 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"