Essay On Conformity In The 1950s

In The 1950s, people resisted the social conformity by doing the things they wanted. The people who resisted the conformity were rather just being themselves and not the way society wanted them to be. There was artist and writers who all abstained the frontier limits put up by society. The United States was growing, expanding and was just coming out of a war. People wanted peace, love and luxuries; some did what society was doing, others did what they wanted. In this case there was few people who did what they thought was right. Moreover, other people were also tired of the way society saw them. “Claudette Colvin refused to be treated like a substandard citizen on one of those Montgomery buses.” (Barnes 2009)She was a great historical women for the black Americans. She was not like Rosa parks, who was …show more content…
He was scared that one day the United States would be ruled by communist and wanted them out. He made people point fingers at each other telling the government that they were communist just to save themselves from being black listed. Society at that time was scared and they were doing everything others were doing instead of resisting and staying out of it until they said no more. People were then staying quiet and stopped pointing fingers at each other they started resting the conformity. On the other hand, “On November 13, 1953, during the height of the McCarthy era, Robin Hood and his band of “merry outlaws” made headlines.” (Kysia 2013) Robin Hood was going to be banned from school textbooks due to some people thinking it promoted communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor. McCarthy made society think communism was that unfortunate. So much that a women wanted to ban Robin Hood from textbooks. In this particular case five students stepped out of the boundaries put up by society and made the Green feather Movement to keep Robin Hood in the