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.