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