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1940-62:
National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart |
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1940-60:
American Birthrate, 1940-1960 - chart |
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1940-90:
Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart |
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1940-95:
US military
(national defense) outlays, 1940-95 |
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1945-60:
Various
Documents on "America & the Meaning of Suburbia"
(additional documents) |
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1945-90:
Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart |
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1950:
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 |
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1950-70:
Unemployment, 1950-1970 - chart |
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1950-85:
Women in the Workforce, 1950-1985 - chart |
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1950:
CIA Summaries on the North Korean Invasion, July |
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1950:
“Don’t Smoke—Unless You Like It” - A 1950 Case Against
Antismoking |
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1950:
“Enemies from Within” - Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and
President Harry S. Truman Trade Accusations of Disloyalty |
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1950:
Internal Security Act (McCarran Act) |
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1950:
Malcolm X
letter from prison (2/15) |
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1950:
“National Suicide” - Margaret Chase Smith and Six
Republican Senators Speak Out Against Joseph McCarthy’s Attack on
“Individual Freedom” |
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1950:
NSC-68: Report on the Soviet Threat (4/14) |
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1950:
Report of the United Nations Commission on Korea |
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1950:
"Salem, 1950" - George Marshall in Masses & Mainstream (July) |
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1950:
Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech on Communists in the
State Department, February |
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1950:
Statement by President Truman on US support of So.
Korea |
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1950:
Telegram from
Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman |
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1950:
U. N.
Resolution (6/27) |
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1950:
U. S. - Soviets Exchange Views Regarding the Invasion of South Korea
(6/27-29) |
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1950:
“A Youngster Needs a Knowledge of the Present” - A
Popular Magazine Urges Tolerance for the Distractions of Youth |
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1951:
22nd.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1951:
ANZUS Treaty |
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1951:
Denis et. al. v. U. S. |
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1951:
Denis et. al. v. United States - Hugo Black's Dissent (6/4) |
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1951:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to
Congress (4/19) |
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1951:
"Higher Education's Appalling Responsibilities: Correcting the
Cultural Lag" - Jazzes H. Halsey, President, University of Bridgeport
(11/1) |
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1951:
Statement on
Draft Covenant on Human Rights - Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1951:
President Truman Dismisses General MacArthur (4/11) |
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1952:
"Checkers Speech" - Vice President Nixon |
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1952:
Code of the City of Montgomery, AL ("Separation of the Races") |
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1952:
"Eisenhower for President," 30 second political
campaign ad (courtesy PBS) (.mov format)
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1952:
Greenback Party Platform - campaign handout |
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1952:
“Have You No Sense of Decency” - The Army-McCarthy
Hearings |
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1952:
Immigration and Nationality Act |
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1952:
"The Iron Curtain Look Is Here" - Life Magazine (women's
fashion) |
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1952:
"Isolation and Expansion" by Walter Lippmann |
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1952:
Joe McCarthy
speaks for all Republicans at the 1952 convention (1.5M sound .avi) |
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1952:
New Jersey Wage Discrimination Act - this act was New Jersey's first
equal pay act |
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1952:
“Not Only Ridiculous, but Dangerous” - Collier’s
Objects to Joseph McCarthy’s Attacks on the Press |
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1952:
Public Act 117 - Michigan Communist Control Law (repealed in 1979) |
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1952:
Richard Nixon defends charges of accepting money from a "secret rich
men's fund" - "Checker's Speech" (9/23)
(sound
file) |
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1952:
“The Shadow of Incipient Censorship” - The Creation of
the Television Code of 1952 |
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1952:
"Talking Un-American Blues" - song lyrics by Irwin Silber and Betty
Sanders |
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1952:
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer |
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1953:
Conditions on aiding the war in Indochina - speech by
Senator John F. Kennedy (6/30) |
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1953:
First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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1953:
“Forcing the Resignation of Women with Minor Children
Is in This Day and Age an Anachronism” - Support for Change in Army
Policy |
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1953:
K. D. Nichols, General Manager, Atomic Energy Commission, to J. Robert
Oppenheimer (12/23) |
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1953:
Korean
War Armistice Agreement (6/8) |
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1953:
“A Mother’s Duty to Her Children” - No Women with
Dependent Children in the Armed Forces Reserves |
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1953:
On the Draft Convention on Political Rights of Women -
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1953:
Polio Hysteria - Newsweek (9/2) |
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1953:
"Some of My Best Friends Are Negro" - Eleanor Roosevelt
in Ebony (Feb.) |
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1953:
“To Dictate the Terms of Motherhood” - A Female
Reservist Challenges Army Policy |
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1954:
“After the Brawl” -
Collier’s (9/6) - assessment of the Army-McCarthy hearings |
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1954:
"The
American Response to the Geneva Declarations" (7/21) |
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1954:
"'Breathing
Spell' for Adjustment Tempers Region's Feelings" - The New York
Times (5/19) |
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1954:
Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, KS |
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1954:
The Comic Book Code of 1954 |
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1954:
Communist Aggression in Guatemala |
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1954:
Communist Control Act |
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1954:
Covert Action in Guatemala |
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1954:
“A Definite and Imperative Need for Legislation Against
Discrimination” |
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1954:
“Digest Of Jim-Crow Laws Affecting Passengers in
Interstate Travel” |
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1954:
Documents
related to Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS |
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1954:
Eisenhower on Guatemala |
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1954:
"Father Knows Best" - sitcom still photographed |
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1954:
Geneva Peace
Accords - which formally ended the Vietnam conflict between the French
and the Vietnamese |
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1954:
"High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time
to Comply" - The New York Times (5/18) |
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1954:
Indochina - Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam
(7/20) |
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1954:
J. Robert Oppenheimer to K. D. Nichols (3/4) |
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1954:
John
Foster Dulles on Massive Retaliation |
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1954:
Letters to the Editor about Alan Paton’s 1954 Article “
The Negro in America Today” |
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1954:
“The McHugh Report:
What Americans Need to Learn About Sex” - Dr. Gelolo McHugh with J.
Robert Moskin in Collier’s (11/9) |
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1954:
The moment that ended McCarthyism.The
Army counsel humiliates McCarthy on national TV (291K sound .avi) |
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1954:
“The Negro in the North” - South African Novelist Alan
Paton Dissects the Racial Situation Beyond the South |
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1954:
“No Heat, No Water . . . and a Large Sign Reading
‘Colored’” - Inequality in “Separate but Equal” Railroad
Accommodations |
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1954:
President Eisenhower's Letter of Support to Ngo Dinh
Diem - the president's offer of American aid to support Diem of South
Vietnam in "developing and maintaining a strong, viable state" (10/23) |
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1954:
President Eisenhower speaks on the "Domino Effect" in Southeast Asia -
Washington, DC (4/7) |
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1954:
Protocol to
the SEATO Treaty (9/8) |
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1954:
The Rating Game - Broadcasters Rely on Poll Numbers
They Don’t Trust |
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1954:
“Supreme Court Decisions Just Are Not Enough” - The
Need for Federal Legislation to Desegregate the South |
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1954:
"The Truth About Indochina" - Senator John F. Kennedy
(4/6) |
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1954:
United
States v. Lattimore |
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1954:
“Where Do You Stand on
the Gravest Question of Our Time?” - Styles Bridges in Collier’s
(1/8) - A Senator Lays Out Military Alternatives in the Post-Korean
War Atomic Age |
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mid-1950s:
"Avoid Total Involvement" - Clark Kerr, Chancellor of the University
of California at Berkeley, from a speech made in the mid-1950s |
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1955:
"Another Torch for Freedom!" - political cartoon on the polio
vaccine |
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1955:
“The Constant Reiteration of Horror and Violence” - A
Senate Report on Television and Juvenile Delinquency |
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1955:
Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of
Education
decision (4/8) |
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1955:
“Here is the Utopian
Promise of the Peacetime Atom” - David O. Woodbury in Look
(9/9) |
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1955:
"Howl"
- poem by Allen Ginsberg |
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1955:
“I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the
Rockefellers” - Pete Seeger Refuses to “Sing” for HUAC |
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1955:
Governor Adlai Stevenson Describes a Woman's Place |
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1955:
"Negroes' Most Urgent Needs" - list presented to the Montgomery, AL
City Council before the bus boycott |
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1955:
“One Should Not Look to Research as a Kind of a
Panacea” - Social Scientists in the 1950s Discuss Studies of
Television Viewing by Children |
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1955:
The Polio Vaccine - Newsweek |
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1955:
The Right of Interposition -
The Richmond News Leader,
Nov. 22 & 29 |
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1955:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1954 - "The Nation: John Foster
Dulles" (1/3 issue) |
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1855:
“Violent Death in Every Form Imaginable” - A Senate
Committee Report Assesses “Crime and Horror” Comic Books |
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1955:
“What I Tell My Child About Color” - Black and White
Fathers in Atlanta Try to Explain Race Relations to Their Sons |
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1955-60:
Photographs
and Pamphlet about Nuclear Fallout |
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1956:
"Duong Loi
Cach Mang Mien Nam," [The Path of Revolution in the South] - Le Duan |
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1956:
"Howl" - a poem by Allen Ginsberg |
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1956:
"Integrated Bus Suggestions" - list submitted by the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr. to the Montgomery, AL City Council (12/19) |
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1956:
Ladies Home Journal
article, "Young Mother" |
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1956:
Liberalism in America--A Note for Europeans - Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr. from The Politics of Hope |
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1956:
“The Negro Voter: Can
He Elect a President?" - Theodore H. White in Collier’s,
(8/17) |
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1956:
"The New Isolationism" - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in The
Atlantic Monthly (May) |
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1956:
“The Ordeal of Bobby Cain” - Racial Confrontation at a
Newly Integrated Southern High School |
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1956:
Photo (UPI) of Rosa Parks Sitting in the Front of a Birmingham, AL Bus
(12/21) |
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1956:
“Public Responsibilities . . . Public Wrongs” - Union
Officials Blame the Taft-Hartley Act for Mob Antiunion Violence |
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1956:
“The ‘Right’ To Sell” vs. “The Sanctuary of Christian
Homes” - Proposed Legislation to Limit Liquor Advertising |
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1956:
The Southern Manifesto |
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1956:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1955 - "Harlowe Curtice: First
Among Equals" (1/2 issue) |
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1956:
“You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed
of Yourselves” - Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC |
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1956:
“Where Men Go Wrong
About Women Voters” - Walter Davenport in Collier's (9/14) |
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1956-60:
"Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?" - song lyrics by Pete Seeger and Joe
Hickerson |
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1957:
"The Birth of a New
Nation" sermon at the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. (4/7) |
