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Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Satire and humor during the 1950s were popular and abundant. MAD, the American humor magazine, was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (1968) The civil rights movement[b] was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which was most commonly employed against African Americans.
November 11 – The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles as the first gay liberation organization. November 22 – Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business. November 24–25 – Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 : A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern United States, brings 30 to 50 inches of snow ...
0–9. 1950 in the United States (21 C, 25 P) Occupied Japan (11 C, 46 P) 1951 in the United States (21 C, 17 P) 1952 in the United States (21 C, 18 P) 1953 in the United States (22 C, 21 P) 1954 in the United States (20 C, 27 P) 1955 in the United States (19 C, 20 P) 1956 in the United States (21 C, 23 P)
Chuck Berry. Rock and roll dominated popular music in the latter half of the 1950s. The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm ...
In the early 1950s, as the AFL and CIO merged, around a third of the American labor force was unionized; by 2012, the proportion was 11 percent, constituting roughly 5 percent in the private sector and 40 percent in the public sector. Organized labor's influence steadily waned and workers' collective voice in the political process has weakened.