1950s

unit is one way society has shown acceptance. Families in the 1950’s were known as breadwinner and homemaker families. The breadwinner and homemaker families were seen as the ideal family during the 1950’s. The breadwinner, in the ideal family, was the father, who brought home money to support his family. The homemaker was the mother who stayed at home while the father worked and took care of…

Although there was a significant amount of economic expansion during the 1950’s, the idea of marriage played a strong role in the allocation of funds to prevent women from being completely independent. Politicians, for instance, rewrote the “tax code to favor male breadwinner families over dual earner families...[and] to discourage wives from working” (49). While the perception was that the 1950’s offered a great variety of opportunities, problems arose with families as “battering…

The 1950’s was known as the Golden Age of television in the United States. During this time beauty pageants, Barbie, and Marilyn Monroe were all popular in society. Beauty pageants gave families something to watch together. Barbie’s gave young girls something to imagine and play with. Marilyn Monroe became a famous icon in Hollywood as well as movies. Beauty pageants, Barbie, and Marilyn Monroe all exhibited characteristics which consisted of beauty and sexuality. Miss America pageants have been…

white individuals in this country. Especially in the southern state, Jim Crow law was enforced. The reason why segregation was a law, state legislatures enforce these laws. However, this occurred in; Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In 1950’s, five different cases were present in the U.S. Supreme Court on issues of Jim Crow law of segregation in public school. Brown vs Board of Education constituted one of these cases. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP team of Legal Defense and…

The major influencers of the 1940’s and 1950’s American film scene were the landmark anti-trust case with Paramount and the initiation of the Hollywood blacklist. Beginning in the run-up to World War II and lasting until the 1960’s these two elements shaped the persona of film in the United States. These two events caused the direction of Hollywood to favor independent filmmakers, reduce Hollywood’s influence on the motion picture distribution and presentation chain and removed qualified actors,…

Robert) Following this debate only a week later, was another piece of television history, the Andy Griffith Show, which was an immediate success and ran from 1960-1968,(Thompson, Robert) bringing a host of a new type of television originating in the 1950’s, but with a revised story type that gave a humorous twist ot the everyday life of a typical family. the Andy Griffith Show, and the many similar shows following it, brought us the modern day sitcom, and the evening lineup of television that we…

with two or three well-behaved children; the father’s duties were to go to work and be the breadwinner while the mother stayed home to make bread. The perfect life was pretending that this ‘perfect lifestyle’ was in fact a dream come true. During the 1950’s this level of conformity was the social norm; there wasn’t…

The 1950s was the Golden Age of Hollywood. The epitome of perfection in body figure in that era was Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. Body image was more influenced by Hollywood and its celebrities than ever. Women were expected to have curves, slim waists, large breasts and an hourglass body shape. There was hip and rear padding to ‘round out’ figures and skinny women often took weight supplements to gain weight. Women were expected to have flawless skin and sweetheart neckline and circle…

a better education, then they would take away the jobs of the white people. Due to this, the colored schools were often farther away, in poorer conditions, less books, and less well paid teachers. Having a good education during the the 1940’s and 1950’s was what helped people get better paid jobs. As of 1960, only twenty percent of African Americans made it through four years of high school (History. 2017). In 1951, a man by the name of Oliver Brown from Topeka, Kansas attempted to sign his…

Television has revolutionized since its existence. Though it was crafted after the radio, it emerged by the 1950’s, becoming an iconic source of entertainment in American homes. The variety of genres presented such as news, situation comedy, and sports appealed to massive audiences. The incorporation of kinescope, color, and VCR’s all changed the ways in which television was consumed and made viewing more convenient. Since its existence to the present day, television has served various purposes…