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  2. Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969)

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    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.

  3. 1950 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    September 29 – Leroy Jones, American footballer (d. 2021) [17] October 3 Pamela Hensley, actress; Phyllis Nelson, singer-songwriter (d. 1998) October 5 Jeff Conaway, actor (d. 2011) Dick Jauron, American football player and coach (d. 2025) October 9 Everett Peck, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2022)

  4. 1950s - Wikipedia

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    As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (Harvard University Press, 1996) 328 pp. Miller, Douglas T. and Marion Nowak. The fifties: the way we really were (1977) Stoner, John C., and Alice L. George. Social History of the United States: The 1950s (2008) Wills, Charles. America in the 1950s (Decades of American History) (2005)

  5. History of the United States (1945–1964) - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, the social conformity and consumerism of the 1950s often came under attack from intellectuals (e.g. Henry Miller's books The Air-Conditioned Nightmare and Sunday After The War) and there was a good deal of unrest fermenting under the surface of American society that would erupt during the following decade.

  6. Civil Rights History in 1950s-60s as Seen Through Variety - AOL

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    The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...

  7. Portal:1950s - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Music history of the United States in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-1950s, when Mexican ranchera was used in Hollywood film soundtracks and the upper-class enjoyed stately orquestas Tejanas and conjunto evolved into a distinctively Mexican-American genre called Tejano. Artists of this era include Esteban Jordan, Tony de la Rosa and El Conjunto Bernal.

  9. Is the Middle-Class ‘American Dream’ of the 1950s Still ...

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    GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s. Realizing the Dream Money management through budgeting, saving, investment and planning are essential to ...