-
Period: to
Ch.29
-
Elections
Republicans win control of both houses of Congress in November elections. -
Levittown
William Levitt announces first Levittown. -
Segregation
Truman orders the end to segregation in the armed forces. -
State of the Union
Truman delivered his State of the Union address that offered to the nation his broad program of reform known as the Fair Deal. -
Minimum Wage
Minimum wage was raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour. -
Pulitzer
Gwendolyn Brooks becmes the first African American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. -
UNIVAC
Remington Rand unveils UNIVAC, the first electronic digital computer to be marketed commercially. -
See It Now
Edward R. Murrow inaugurates the television news show See It Now. -
McDonald's
McDonald's chooses golden arches design for its hamburger shops. -
Brown v. BOE
The Supreme Court orders schools desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. -
Vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk reports success of an antipolio vaccine. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. -
Boycott
African Americans begin boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, bus company. -
Interstate
Eisenhower signs legislation creating the interstate highway system. -
Election
Eisenhower beat Stevenson in the election of 1956. -
Civil Rights
Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite ever, Sputnik. -
Twenty-one scandal
Charles Van Doren confesses to cheating on the televison quiz show Twenty-one. -
NDEA
The National Defense Education Act passed and broadened teaching of science and math. -
Sit-in
African American college students stage a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.
