The Fifties In America

by Super, John C.

• ISBN13: 9781587652059
• ISBN10: 1587652056
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Salem Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Robinson, Jackie	791	(1)
Robinson, Sugar Ray	792	(1)
Rock and roll	793	(8)
Rock Around the Clock	800	(1)
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals	801	(1)
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel	802	(3)
Roth v. United States	804	(1)
Rowan, Carl T.	805	(1)
Roy, Gabrielle	806	(2)
Sahl, Mort	808	(1)
St. Laurent, Louis	809	(1)
St. Lawrence Seaway	810	(2)
San Francisco Renaissance	812	(4)
Saturday Evening Post	814	(1)
Savannah	815	(1)
School desegregation	816	(3)
Science and technology	819	(6)
Scientology	825	(1)
Scrabble	826	(2)
Sea Around Us, The	827	(1)
Seaborg, Glenn	828	(3)
Second Sex, The	829	(1)
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon	830	(1)
Serling, Rod	831	(1)
Seuss, Dr.	832	(1)
Sex and sex education	833	(3)
Sheen, Fulton J.	836	(1)
Sheppard, Samuel	837	(1)
Shulman, Max	838	(1)
Silly Putty	839	(1)
Silvers, Phil	839	(1)
Sinatra, Frank	840	(2)
Sky King	842	(1)
Small Business Administration	842	(2)
Smith, Margaret Chase	844	(1)
Smoking and tobacco	845	(2)
Snead, Sam	847	(1)
Snider, Duke	848	(1)
Soccer	849	(2)
Soil Bank Act of 1956	851	(1)
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization	852	(2)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference	854	(1)
Southern Manifesto	855	(1)
Space race	856	(3)
Spillane, Mickey	859	(1)
Sports	860	(7)
Sports Illustrated	864	(1)
Sputnik I	865	(2)
Steel mill closure	867	(3)
Steelworkers strike	870	(1)
Steinbeck, John	871	(1)
Stengel, Casey	872	(1)
Stevenson, Adlai	873	(2)
Stravinsky, Igor	875	(2)
Streetcar Named Desire, A	876	(1)
Suez Crisis	877	(3)
Sullivan, Ed	880	(1)
Sumac, Yma	881	(1)
Sunset Boulevard	881	(1)
Superconductivity research	882	(1)
Supreme Court decisions, U.S.	883	(5)
Surfing and beach culture	888	(4)
Sweatt v. Painter	890	(2)
Taylor, Elizabeth	892	(1)
Teamsters Union	893	(1)
Telephones	894	(3)
Television for children	897	(2)
Television game shows	899	(3)
Television in Canada	902	(2)
Television in the United States	904	(5)
Television soap operas	909	(2)
Television Westerns	911	(2)
Teller, Edward	913	(2)
Tennis	915	(2)
Theater in Canada	917	(1)
Theater in the United States	918	(6)
Thing from Another World, The	923	(1)
Thomas, Danny	924	(1)
Thomson, Bobby	925	(1)
3-D movies	926	(1)
Tidelands oil controversy	927	(1)
Till lynching	928	(2)
Tonight Show	929	(1)
Top 40 radio	930	(1)
Tranquilizer chlorpromazine	931	(1)
Trans-Canada Highway	932	(1)
Transistors	933	(2)
Tripartite Security Treaty	935	(1)
Trop v. Dulles	935	(1)
Truman, Harry S.	936	(2)
Truman assassination attempt	938	(1)
Truman Doctrine	939	(1)
Trumbo, Dalton	940	(2)
Tupperware	942	(1)
Turner-Stompanato scandal	943	(1)
TV dinners	944	(1)
TV Guide	944	(1)
Twenty-second Amendment	945	(2)
U-2 spy planes	947	(1)
Ugly American, The	948	(1)
Unemployment in Canada	948	(2)
Unemployment in the United States	950	(3)
Unionism in Canada	953	(3)
Unionism in the United States	956	(3)
Unitas, Johnny	959	(1)
United Fruit Company	960	(1)
United Nations	961	(3)
United States Air Force Academy	964	(1)
United States Information Agency	965	(1)
UNIVAC computer	966	(1)
Urbanization in Canada	967	(2)
Urbanization in the United States	969	(3)
Uris, Leon	972	(2)
Valens, Ritchie	974	(1)
Van Allen radiation belts	974	(2)
Velikovsky, Immanuel	976	(1)
Veterans organizations	977	(2)
Vietnam	979	(2)
Vinson, Fred M.	981	(1)
Volkswagen	982	(2)
Walcott, Jersey Joe	984	(1)
War brides	984	(2)
War films	986	(3)
War of the Worlds, The	989	(1)
Warren, Earl	989	(2)
Warsaw Pact	991	(2)
Water pollution	993	(1)
Watson, James D.	994	(1)
West Point honor code scandal	995	(1)
West Side Story	995	(1)
White Citizens' Councils	996	(2)
Why Johnny Can't Read	997	(1)
Wide-screen movies	998	(2)
The Wild One	999	(1)
Williams, Tennessee	1000	(1)
Wilson, Edmund	1001	(1)
Women and the roots of the feminist movement	1002	(5)
Wood, Ed	1007	(1)
World Council of Churches convention	1008	(1)
Wouk, Herman	1008	(2)
Yates v. United States	1010	(1)
Yerby, Frank	1010	(1)
Young, Loretta	1011	(1)
Your Hit Parade	1012	(1)
Youth culture and the generation gap	1012	(5)
Drama: Major Films	1017	(9)
Drama: Academy Awards	1026	(3)
Drama: Major Broadway Plays and Awards	1029	(5)
Drama: Most-Watched U.S. Television Shows	1034	(2)
Drama: Emmy Awards	1036	(3)
Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation	1039	(7)
Legislation: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions	1046	(5)
Literature: Best-Selling U.S. Books	1051	(3)
Literature: Major Literary Awards	1054	(2)
Music: Popular Musicians and Their Hits	1056	(12)
Sports: Winners of Major Events	1068	(6)
Time Line	1074	(10)
Bibliography	1084	(14)
Web Sites	1098	(6)
Glossary	1104
Category Index	iii
Personage Index	xix
Photo Index	xxxiv
Subject Index	xxxviii