Civil Rights Movement In The 1950's

The 1950’s was known as a prosperous decade while the 1960’s was known as a decade of protests. Sixty percent of Americans were reported living in suburbs during the 50s and 90 percent of American had access to a television at that time. However; a decade later conditions in America started to worsen as more and more riots and protests were breaking out because of the unrest many Americans, especially blacks, felt during the time. Soon after a strong, new racial movement came about that helped settle most of the unrest in America. Thus, the Civil Rights Movement helped settle the disturbance in the nation as it transitioned from the 1950s to the 1960s. The 1950s, economically, was known as “The Birth of the Consumer” as majority of households

Suburbs were not too far from the cities where it would affect many people’s work but they were still far enough so that people could enjoy a more spacious and crime-free environment. However; Whites were the majority of people that were moving in to the suburbs as they were the only ones who could afford it at the time. Many Blacks were still poor and remained in the South where they were heavily affected by harsh Jim-Crow laws that led to an increasing number of poorly-educated Blacks which made finding a job difficult. This movement into the suburbs was known as “White Flight” because more and more Blacks had starting moving into the cities increasing the overall crime rate as a growing number of Whites were leaving. Politically the 1950s was an unsettling time. Because of the Cold War that the US was engaged in with Russia many people were getting jailed because of suspicion of communism when they were just exercising their First Amendment Rights of free speech. This made many Americans scared at the time as they felt fear of speaking against the government. America was also engaged in the Korean War in the early 50s which soon dragged out to be a stalemate; again causing for