The 50's

                                                                        

Politics

Until 1950 many schools did not let whites and blacks attened the same school. They wouldn't even let them drink from the same water fountain. There was a sign above the water fountian that siad white and colored over them. In 1950 Olvier Brown was upset because he couldn't send his 8 year old daughter to his own neighboredhood school because it was for white children only. He took his case to the Supreme Court. The NAACP helped Mr. Brown. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that racial segregation violated the 14th ammendment and that it was illegal. After 1954 all America schools were ordered to desegregate. Many places did not want intergration. In 1957, the Arkansas National Guard tried to keep nine African American students from going to the all white high school. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to let the blacks in the school.

Society

The writings of the time did not replicate that of the post-war decade before it. Instead of writing about war as the survivors of World War I had, the deniziens of the 1950's choose to write about anything but the war. THey choose to Denounce the common life and fostered rebellion and nonconformity with Beatnick writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) would be based on the rebellious teens and post-war values. Sexually explicit writing reached a new peak with fiction like Peyton Place. The writings of the 1950's were heavily influenced by the Cold War.

Music

From the big band music of the early 1950's through doo wap in the middle of the decade into the rockability of the late 50s the mood was optimistic. The music was fast and the beat was swing baby swing.

Frank Sinatra- 1956 - Alta sociedade (High Society)

Mind if i make love to you?

Cinema

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name.

The film won an Academy Award for Best Song for "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," sung by Doris Day. It was also entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

The 60’s

Society – Martin Luther King delivers his ‘’I have a Dream’’ speech, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. Where he talked about the civil rights, and other racism related subjects.

Politics - 1960 – United States presidential election, 1960 – The key turning point of the campaign was the series of four Kennedy–Nixon debates; they were the first presidential debates held on television.

Movies – EASY RIDER (1969) Dennis Hoper director, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hoper and Antonio Mendoza.

Music – The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey (lead vocals, harmonica and guitar), Pete Townshend (guitar, keyboards and vocals), John Entwistle (bass guitar, brass and vocals) and Keith Moon (drums and percussion). They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction.

                                                                                                                     Leandro Gomes

The 50’s

Society - 1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.

Alaska becomes the 49th state. On January 3, 1959 Alaska joined the United States. The peninsula sold for 7.2 million dollars.

Hawaii becomes the 50th and final state of the United States of America. Hawaii became a United states territory in 1900. The war ended in 1945, then fourteen years later Hawaii became a state.

Politics - During the 1950's we also had another president, his name was Harry S. Truman. He was only president for a while. He only served about from 1945 to 1952. During the 1950s he served while the Korean War was going on. He also made sure that the war was a very limited, one that way no other counties would join in. After the war, he retired to Independence. At age 88, he died in December after a real good fight for his life.

Movies - VERTIGO - (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes)

Music - Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records.

                                                                                                                       Leandro Gomes