Essay On Idolized People In The 1950s

There were many remembered people who were idolized and found fam in the 1950s. Rock and Roll swept the nation and brought along Elvis Presley. There was a first black baseball player, Jackie Robinson, who brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series. The fads and fashions of the 1950s were crazy and brought the movie star: Marilyn Monroe. Boxing brought fam to the short but mighty man, Rocky Marciano. All along the way the Transistor Radio spread news of these idolized people of the 1950s. When you turned on your Transistor Radio back in the 1950s you were sure to listen to one of Elvis Presley’s songs, you were to hear one of Jackie Robinson’s homerun baseball games, you could hear what Marilyn Monroe was up to and what movie she was starting in next, and you could hear how one of Rocky Marciano’s knockout matches went. Elvis brought music and songs like “Jailhouse Rock,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” and “Hound Dog,” etc. Jackie brought racism down when he became the first black man in baseball playing on the team: Brooklyn Dodgers. Marilyn brought a new height or recognition of women and starred in movies, such as: “The Seven Year Itch,” or “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” Rocky Marciano was a different man who, would have never been considered a boxer, but won 37

What if Jackie Robinson didn’t care about racism and tried to end it and became the first black baseball player, who would have? What if Marilyn didn’t bring along her sexy buoyancy and made a different aspect towards women, who would have stepped up in her place? What if Rocky Marciano was scared and never started boxing, where would he be? What if Texas Instruments didn’t think of their genius invention of a portable radio, would we even have one? These men and women of the 1950s changed the world drastically. They changed the world so much that it still is altered to this