HIST 2057 Chapter : Chapter 30 The 1950s
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Chapter 30 the 1950s: affluence & anxiety in an atomic age. A conformist culture: growing white-middle class = conformity over individualism (esp. women) Cracks in the picture window: postwar literature: struggle for survival amid mass society culture. Salinger: lie down in darkness (1951) william styron, rabbit run (1961) john updike, invisible man (1952) ralph ellison [*racial struggles*] Jackson pollock, artist expressionism: beats earlier version of the hippie, rock & roll alan freed, election of 1952 adlai stevenson, dem. & dwight d eisenhower, rep: eisenhower wins pledged to reduce the power of the executive branch and. Thurgood marshall, who served as chief attorney of the naacp: brown v. board of education (topeka, ka; 1952, rosa parks & the montgomery bus boycott: 75% of passengers were black. Lakes to ocean freighters/tankers: decay of railroads/mass transit; dependency on imported oil. Division in the justice dept. prevented interference w/ voting rights; civil.
