With World War II ending, there was a peacetime economy. The peacetime economy stopped war rationing and those people had extra resources to use for new inventions. Suburbs were formed as safe alternatives for living in the inner city. Also, segregation was thought of as unfair. The 1950’s was a decade of progress. The 1950’s was a decade of progress because the people ended the “separate but equal”. Five-year-old Sara Roberts had to walk past many white schools in order to get to the “equal” black school which was underfunded. With segregation abolished, she and the other African Americans went to a nice well funded public school.(www.http://americanhistory.si.edu) “We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate
