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One of the most significant decades in United States history, the 1950s represented a time of continuity and dissent. How Americans reacted to these growing pains presents historians with a wealth of information with which to dissect the times and better understand the momentous events that occurred between 1950 and 1959. This book is an edited compilation of first-person accounts consisting of valuable primary source material. The work analyzes important roles played by various individuals, especially political and social leaders.
Contents
Foreword; Introduction; Documents 1950-1959; 1950; Marshall Plan Assistance - Arthur H. Vandenberg; Employment of Homosexuals and other Sex Perverts in Government - Senate Investigations Suncommittee Report; 1951; Letter to an American Mother - Sigmund Freud; Introducing a Civil Rights Legislative Program - Hubert H. Humphrey; The Fight Against Communism - Pat McCarran; 1952; The Way to Freedom - John Foster Dulles; Daft of Report to President Truman - Eleanor Roosevelt; 1953; The Bricker Amendment - John W. Bricker; Inauguration Address - Dwight D. Eisenhower; Civil Rights Legislation - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; 1954; Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka - Earl Warren; Senate Condemnation of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy - Sam Ervin, Arthur Watkins, Bourke Hickenlooper; 1955; Court Order Can't Make Races Mix - Zora Neale Hurston; Time, Chance, and an Appointment with History - Rosa Parks; 1956; Medical Research - Margaret Chase Smith; Southern Manifesto - Ninety-six Politicians; The Power of Propaganda in Southeast Asia - Thomas A. Dewey; 1957; Smoking and Health - Leroy E. Burney, Calvin T. Klopp, Wallace F. Bennett; Federal Assistance to Education - George S. McGovern; Loving Your Enemies - Martin Luther King, Jr.; 1958; United States Military Power - John F. Kennedy; School Integration at Little Rock - Orval E. Faubus; National Defense Education Act - Edwin K. Thomson; 1959; Commission to Study Problems of Alcoholism - Olin D. T. Johnston; Economic Assistance to Native Americans - William Lange.
