Labels:text | human face | screenshot | newspaper OCR: TIME The 1950s ALMANAC OF THE 20TH CENTURY January 1950-December 1959 PORTRAIT the U.S. economy ELECTIONS grew by nearly half, and most 'S CLEA Americans HOUSE Z HOUSE achieved ar IKE unprecedented DICK prosperity. Even 1952 black Americans began to enjoy the MAN OF THE YEAR THIRD WORLD Dwight Eisenhower fruits of citizenship RISES MODERN LIVING and opportunity. threat of inter- Bomb. They hung munist country. IKE The 1950s was a But there was a national Com- over the normali- And Americans decade of amazing dark shadow over ties of everyday were rocked by 1956 munism, the arms progress in many the decade: the race and the life like a black Sputnik and the Soviet Union's areas. The United cloud. The U.S .. other, ominous States was the most which twice sent achievements in powerful nation on troops to repel per- space. earth, committed to ceived Communist the defense of free- aggression and lost -Montgomery bus dom and democra- 33 600 of its sons boycott took place cy everywhere. At and daughters in in 1955 home, fueled by Korea, was unable cheap energy, high to roll back the -Hawaii became productivity and Iron Curtain from the 50th state in enduring optimism, KOREAN WAR COLD WAR a single Com- TOP STORIES OF THE 1950s 1959
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