Arkansas enrolled the first black students, nine .
in all. It took two weeks into the school year .
and the sending of the National Guard by .
Eisenhower to enable the students to successfully .
enter the school. The city bus strike led by .
Martin Luther King, Jr., after Rosa Parks was .
arrested for refusing to move to the back of the .
bus, occurred in 1955. These important racial .
decisions led to the Civil Rights Movement.
Economically and socially, America was better .
than it had been in years. The economy was .
booming, unemployment rate dropped to 5% or less .
for the decade. This was much lower than the 15-.
25% unemployment rate that had occurred five to .
ten years before, during the Great Depression. .
Government spending, which had ended .
the Great Depression in the 1940s, .
continued to stimulate growth through.
public funding of schools, housing, .
veterans" benefits, welfare, and the .
$100 billion interstate highway .
program which began in 1965 .
(Brinkley 800).
.
One of the most important events that took .
place during Eisenhower's eight years was the .
Federal Highway Act of 1956. "This landmark bill .
provided construction of 41,000 miles of freeways .
to be built over a ten year period at the cost of .
$26 billion" (Wright 736). The highways not only .
would stimulate the economies by boosting the .
purchase of cars, gas, and tires, they also help .
aid the movement from cities to the suburbs that .
were starting to expand. The highways were to .
connect cities with a population of 50, 000 or .
more people. The government decided that a way to .
help generate resources for this program was to .
raise the Federal Gasoline Tax from three cents .
to four cents a gallon. This Highway Act aided in .
the migration to the West. .
.
The Highway Act did indeed boost car sales, .
and new homes were in high demand. William J. .
Levitt, of New York, answered the demand for .
new houses.
The 1950s are characterized as a decade marked by the Cold War and social conformity. ... The 1950s almost inevitably invoke an image of the so called "traditional" nuclear family portrayed in famous TV shows like "Happy Days." ... The 1950s nuclear family differed from previous conceptions of the family in America. ... The fifties were the "Happy Days-. ... I spoke with my grandfather, who also agreed that the fifties were a happy time. ...
Men were happy with societies take on women. ... It seems to me that men just did not understand what women needed to live happy lives. ... When we look at families from the past we cannot help but think of the "good old days". ... The 1950s were a unique era in time. ... I feel children are not being taught to respect others, like they were in the 1950s. ...
Americans during the 1950s bought 53% more books than in the 1940s. ... Some experts call this "phase- The Happy Days, named after one of the shows that inculcated the norm of the American families, although this show in particular did not take place during the fifties. ... They were not happy days for Americans. ... The Americans were going through rough times. ... Americans were watching the same on television that they were doing at home. ...
This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. ... In 1974, a series developed by Garry Marshal entitled Happy Days issued popularity to this era. ... They each resided in secure households, which were in carefree urban areas. ... In Roseanne, the idea of the American family is much more realistic than that of those shows from the 1950s. ... The families seen on television today are the diametric opposite of those seen in the early 1950s. ...
This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. ... In 1974, a series developed by Garry Marshal entitled Happy Days issued popularity to this era. ... They each resided in secure households, which were in carefree urban areas. ... In Roseanne, the idea of the American family is much more realistic than that of those shows from the 1950s. ... The families seen on television today are the diametric opposite of those seen in the early 1950s. ...
A Separate Peace By John Knowles (late 1950s) This story takes place at Devon School in New Hampshire , when one of the main characters gene flashes back fifteen years to tell the adventures his friends and him had through their experiences at Devon School. The story starts when Gene returns to Devon school and turns back to his past to tell the story of the days him and his friend Phineas roamed the school. ... Gene is more of the calm, normal type of person but, when Finny and him ...
Work: • In the old days, women were subjugated, partly due to the freedom of a man to take a concubine and the low legal protection of women's rights in marriage. ... • In the 1950s & 60s, the CCP organised the training of "token" women in male dominated areas, such as flying aircraft and working on high tension power lines. ... There were only 2 women in the 25 member Politburo in 1981, 14 out of 205 full members of the Central committee, and 37 out of 235 members of the Presidium of the National people's congress. ... It would be if it were the common pattern. ... I...
(Black Like Me, pg.26) So is going through the south as a black man the only way to realize the hardships of a black man in the late 1950s, or is there another way for a people to get along and learn that we are all the same no matter what our race, nationality, and skin color happens to be. Will we realizes that we are all one big happy family and that although we may not like each other we realize that it is possible for us to all get along. ... His first couple days he expected to find prejudice but not to the extent that he heard the word "nigger" was on the tip of the tongue ready to...
The bear inspired Bond to write a story, and in 10 days he had written the first book. After the first Paddington book was accepted, Michael Bond went on to write a whole series and by 1965 his books were so successful that that he was able to give up his job with the BBC in order to become a full-time writer. The action of the story takes place in London of 1950s. ... At first Paddington has a brainwave, then he gets into troubles, but finally everything comes to the happy ending. ...
