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Henry David Thoreau
work "Civil Disobedience" provided inspiration for many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A leading transcendentalist,[2] Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government. -
HANS HOFFMAN
was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter, Starting at a young age, Hofmann gravitated towards science and mathematics. -
EDWARD HOPPER
who had made a name for himself in earlier decades, combated the blissful images of television by showing an America full of loneliness and alienation. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
ALFRED KINSEY
Kinsey revealed a much greater prevalence of premarital sex, extramarital affairs, and homosexuality than mainstream public discourse would have suggested. -
BULL CONNOR
was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. His office, under the city commission government, gave him responsibility for administrative. -
Ed Sullivan
Sullivan was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News. -
MARK ROTHKO
he was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist. -
WILLEM DE KOONING
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands -
EDWARD R. MURROW
SEE IT NOW, the first coast-to-coast live show. Many consider Murrow's 1953 PERSON TO PERSON interview with Joseph McCarthy to be a major step toward McCarthy's downfall. -
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Jackson Pollock
gained fame through "ACTION PAINTING" — pouring, dripping, and spattering the paint onto the canvas. -
PERRY COMO
was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. -
ROSA PARKS
rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
JACOBO ARBENZ
he came to power in Guatemala, he promised to relieve the nation's impoverished farmers by seizing land held by the American-owned UNITED FRUIT COMPANY and redistributing it to the peasants. -
Ralph Ellison
penned INVISIBLE MAN, which pinpointed American indifference to the plight of African Americans. "I am an invisible man," he wrote. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me ..." -
Clayton Moore
was one of the earliest TV Westerns, making the jump from radio in 1941. The Lone Ranger and other Westerns geared toward children aired on Saturday mornings. Adult Westerns, such as Gunsmoke and Wyatt Earp aired during prime-time. -
FRANK SINATRA
Beginning his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. -
C. WRIGHT MILLS
Mills feared that an alliance between military leaders and munitions manufacturers held an unhealthy proportion of power that could ultimately endanger American democracy -
WILLIAM WHYTE
was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. After his book about corporate culture The Organization Man (1956) which sold over two million copies. -
FANNIE LOU HAMER
was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). -
James Farmer
was a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the United States. -
SLOAN WILSON
After the war, Wilson worked as a reporter for Time-Life. His first book, Voyage to Somewhere, was published in 1947 and drew on his wartime experiences. -
JACK KEROUAC
He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. -
SAM PHILLIPS
he better known as Sam Phillips, was an American musician, businessman, record executive, music producer, and disc-jockey, who played an important role in the emergence and development of rock and roll and rockabilly as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. -
MARLON BRANDO
was an American actor, film director, and activist. He is hailed for bringing a gripping realism to film acting, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. -
ALLEN GINSBERG
Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. -
Chuck Berry
is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode". -
FATS DOMINO
is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. Domino released five gold (million-copy-selling) records before 1955.[1] He also had 35 Top 40 American hits and has a music style based on traditional rhythm and blues ensembles of bass, piano, electric. -
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
James Dean
was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. -
LITTLE RICHARD
he known by his stage name Little Richard, is an American recording artist, songwriter and musician. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than six decades. -
STOKELY CARMICHAEL
also known as Kwame Touré, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. -
Vietnam war
The VIETNAM WAR was the longest war in United States history.
Promises and commitments to the people and government of South Vietnam to keep communist forces from overtaking them reached back into the Truman Administration. -
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
rose to national prominence by initiating a probe to ferret out communists holding prominent positions. During his investigations, safeguards promised by the Constitution were trampled. -
William Levitt
revolutionized the way Americans live and ushered in an age of suburbia by providing inexpensive housing outside the city. -
Rowlf on the Jimmy Dean Show
Jim Henson's character Rowlf the dog gets his first appearance and ultimatly makes the Jimmy Dean Show more likable for different ages of people with Henson's unique comedy skills. -
JFK assassination
On November 22, 1963, a wave of shock and grief swept the United States. While visiting Dallas, President Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet. Millions of Americans had indelible images burned into their memories. The bloodstained dress of Jacqueline Kennedy, a mournful Vice-President Johnson swearing the Presidential oath of office, and dozens and dozens of unanswered questions. -
HIV/AIDS
HIV is a sexually transmitted infection. It can also be spread by contact with infected blood or from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breast-feeding. -
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER
sought to strengthen ties with the Soviet bloc, the United States withdrew its pledge to help Nasser construct the all-important ASWAN DAM. -
Elvis Presley
he was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King". -
JAMES BLAKE
is an English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from London. He is also known as Harmonimix when releasing remixes. -
LUCILLE BALL'
pregnancy, though Lucy was never filmed from the waist down while she was pregnant. Forty-four million Americans tuned in to welcome her newborn son to the show.
