Music Of The 1950's Analysis

Register to read the introduction… Towards the end of the decade it was a victorious time for the African American people in the south because the schools were being integrated, and they were finally getting the freedom they deserved. The music of the 1950’s was dramatically changed by these events and in some cases is the voice used by the people to get their voice heard on a national level.

In the 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed 80,000 people. In the early 1950s many people were very painfully aware of the threat of a nuclear bomb being dropped on the United States. This threat led to many people building bomb shelters and many American cities staged regular air-raid drills. As a precautionary measure in case a school was bombed, children were issued dog tags so they could be identified if they were discovered dead. This whole fear radically changed the American way of life and the way it’s citizens viewed the world outside the American borders. In 1952 a case came before the supreme court that would forever change the American way of life in the South, especially in the school system. There were actually 5 cases that made up this life changing decision, but collectively they were known as Brown vs. Board of Education. In all 5 cases the U.S. District Court ruled in the favor of the school board, but the the plaintiffs appealed in the U.S.