Information on the Eisenhower Era, the 1950's.

• 1957 Desegregation of Little Rock High School
  • from PBS.
• Authentic History
  • Find Music, TV and Fads from the 1950's.
• Brown vs. Board of Education Decision -- 1954
  • "Separate but Equal" education ruled unconstitutional.
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans
  • Click on “Our Stories” for interviews and oral histories of people who participated in the civil rights movement in the American South in the 1950's and 1960's.
• Cold War
  • The Cold War Museum is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Smithsonian and dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations of the years from the 1940's to 1990's.
• General Dwight David Eisenhower
  • "Ike"
• Inventions 1951-1975
• Korean War 1950-53
  • "The forgotten war."
• Nikita Kruschev
  • Russian leader of the Cold War
• Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
  • A University of Pennsylvania website featuring reading lists, opinion articles, articles on historical events, significant personalities, cultural trends, the Cold War, the Stalin era, etc., including many articles published in the 1950's.
• Polio Vaccine
  • Documents from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
• Pop Art
• Radio Days
  • Recordings of early radio broadcasts, including dramatic, comic, and futuristic series, and news events, some in downloadable mp3 format. Also biographical and critical articles about radio pioneers and actors and the cultural significance of early radio programming.
• Rosa Parks
  • The beginning of peaceful civil disobedience in the civil rights movement, December 1, 1955.
• The Rosenbergs' 1951 Espionage Trial
  • Cold War hysteria.
• Sputnik - 1957
  • Official NASA retrospective website.
• Take Me Back to the Fifties

  • Music and memories of life growing up in the nineteen fifities.