1950s Pop Culture

By Keeleybrow.n

  • Integration of Baseball

    Integration of Baseball
    With deliberate speed, the 1950s saw the reintegration of the white major leagues. Even years after Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Hank Thompson, Willard Brown and Dan Bankhead reintegrated the white major leagues, the United States was still under the dogma of “separate but equal” imposed by the 1896 Plessy v.

  • Rock and Roll

    Rock and Roll
    Sea of heartbreak by Don Gibson
    Be My Guest by Fats Domino
    Apron Strings by Billy The Kid
    Devil Women by Buddy Knox
    Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley
    Finders Keepers by Johnny Burnette
    You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry
    Just A Little Too Much by Ricky Nelson
    Forty days by Ronnie Hawkins
    Bloodshot Eyes by Jimmy Justice.