Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Part 2, Lectures in History

David Halberstam.
The Fifties.
New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Other parts of this post:

• Part 1: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993)
• Table of Contents: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Table of Contents

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Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org.

Selected Lectures on the 1950s:

Grouped into the categories:

• Cold War
• Korean War
• Presidential Politics
• Economy, Business, Transportation
• Culture
• Medicine
• African-American Civil Rights

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cold War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• David Dalton, "Origins of the Cold War," College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 17 November 2011.
  • History, College of the Ozarks.
  • Cold War, 1947–1991, Wikipedia.
• Thomas Whalen, "The Presidency and Cold War Policy [1953-1963]," Boston University, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 04 October 2011.
  • Thomas Whalen, College of General Studies, Boston University.
  • Thomas J. Whalen, Boston University.
  • Cold War (1953–1962), Wikipedia.
  • Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961, Wikipedia.
  • Presidency of John F. Kennedy, January 1961 – November 1963, Wikipedia.
• Christopher Saladino, "Cold War Nuclear Arms Race," Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 24 October 2014.
  • Christopher Saladino, Department of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • Potsdam Conference, 17 July - 02 August 1945, Potsdam, Germany, Wikipedia.
  • Potsdam Declaration, 26 July 1945, Wikipedia.
  • Cold War, 1947–1991, Wikipedia.
  • Manhattan Project, Wikipedia.
  • Nuclear arms race, Wikipedia.
  • History of the Teller–Ulam design, Wikipedia.
  • Thermonuclear weapon, Wikipedia.
  • Ivy Mike, first U.S. test of a full-scale thermonuclear device, 01 November 1952, Wikipedia.
  • Soviet atomic bomb project, Wikipedia.
  • Joe 4, RDS-6s, first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon, 12 August 1953, Wikipedia.
  • Mutual assured destruction, Wikipedia.
  • Deterrence theory, Wikipedia.
  • Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV), Wikipedia.
• Kenneth Osgood, "The CIA and Regime Change in the Cold War," Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 09 April 2012.
  • Kenneth Osgood, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Division, Colorado School of Mines.
  • Kenneth Osgood. Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • 1953 Iranian coup d'état, August 1953.
  • 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, June 1954.
  • 1973 Chilean coup d'état, 11 September 1973.
  • Iranian Revolution, 1979.
  • United States involvement in regime change: Cold War era.
  • History of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Karen Rader, "Cold War Educational Film," Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 24 March 2016.
  • Karen Rader, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain. Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Atoms for Peace, Wikipedia.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, New York City," December 8, 1953. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
  • Robert A. ("Bo") Jacobs, "Atomic Kids: Duck and Cover and Atomic Alert Teach American Children How to Survive Atomic Attack," Film & History An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, Volume 40, Number 1, pages 25-44, January 2010.
    [researchgate.net; muse.jhu.edu.]
  • Duck and Cover, 1951 [YouTube; Wikipedia].
  • National Science Board, Wikipedia.
  • Sputnik 1, 04 October 1957, first artificial Earth satellite, Wikipedia.
  • The Bell System Science Series [Wikipedia; YouTube playlist 1; YouTube playlist 2; YouTube playlist 3.]
  • Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. Science on American Television: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Audra J. Wolfe. Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Amy Kohout, "Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Environment," Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 12 December 2017.
  (History lecture or propaganda session?)
  • Amy Kohout, Department of History, Colorado College.
  • Duck and Cover, 1951 [YouTube, Wikipedia].
  • Isao Hashimoto, "A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945," YouTube.
  • Rebecca Solnit. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994; 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Korean War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• Michael Devine, "Harry S. Truman and the Korean War: Unfinished Legacy," Y.B. Min Lecture Series, Center for Asian Business, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 15 September 2010.
  (A very good survey of the Korean War, but not from the C-SPAN Lectures in History series.)
  • Speakers, 2010-2011 Events, Center for Asian Business, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University.
  • Center for Asian Business, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University.
  • Michael Devine, C-SPAN.org.
  • Brian Burnes, "Truman Library Director Michael Devine to retire in May," The Kansas City Star, 12 February 2014.
  • Korean War, Wikipedia.
• Arthur Waldron, "The Korean War (1950-1953)," Why Does America Go To War?: A History Institute for Teachers, First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, Wheaton, Illinois, Carthage College, Foreign Policy Research Institute, 26 March 2017.
  (Another lecture not from the C-SPAN Lectures in History series.)
  • "Announcing FPRI’s 2017 Military History Institute: Why Does America Go To War?," Foreign Policy Research Institute, 12 December 2016.
  • Why Does America Go To War?, 25-26 March 2017, Conference webpage, Foreign Policy Research Institute.
  • Why Does America Go To War?, Foreign Policy Research Institute, YouTube playlist.
  • Arthur Waldron, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Arthur Waldron, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Arthur Waldron, Senior Fellow - Asia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute.
  • Arthur Waldron (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Korean War, Wikipedia.
• Janet G. Valentine, "The Korean War," The Ft. Leavenworth Series, Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 15 March 2012.
  (Another lecture not from the C-SPAN Lectures in History series.)
  • Spring 2012 Programs, Dole Institute of Politics.
  • Janet Valentine, Department of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, LinkedIn.
  • William T. Allison, Jeffrey Grey, Janet G. Valentine. American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2016.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Korean War, Wikipedia.
  • U.S. National Security Council, "NSC 48/2: The Position of the United States With Respect to Asia," 30 December 1949. [Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 2, Document 387, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.]
• Samuel F. Wells Jr., "Stalin's Decision for War in Korea," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 18 March 2013.
  (Another lecture not from the C-SPAN Lectures in History series.)
  • "Stalin's Decision for War in Korea," Event Information with Audio and Video, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 18 March 2013.
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
  • Samuel Wells, Wilson Center.
  • Samuel F. Wells Jr., C-SPAN.org.
  • U.S. National Security Council, "NSC 48/2: The Position of the United States With Respect to Asia," 30 December 1949. [Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 2, Document 387, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.]
  • Korean War, 1950-1953, Digital Archive, Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center.
• Lori Bogle, "Korean War POWs," U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 18 April 2014.
  • Lori Bogle, History Department, U.S. Naval Academy.
  • Malcolm W. Cagle and Frank A. Manson. The Sea War in Korea. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1957; 2000.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Korean War, Wikipedia.
  • Korean War: Prisoners of war, Wikipedia.
  • List of American and British defectors in the Korean War, Wikipedia.
• Joseph Glatthaar, "Korean War and Civil-Military Relations," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 28 March 2017.
  • Joseph T. Glatthaar, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Korean War, June 1950 – July 1953, Wikipedia.
• Eliot Cohen, "Relationship Between President Truman and General MacArthur," School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 08 March 2012.
  • Eliot A. Cohen, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
  • School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
  • Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), Wikipedia.
  • Matthew Ridgway (1895 – 1993), Wikipedia.
  • George Marshall (1880 – 1959), Wikipedia.
• Michael Devine, Samuel Wells, "Korean War Remembered," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 26 June 2017.
  (Another talk not from the C-SPAN Lectures in History series.)
  • "The Korean War Remembered," Event Information, Wilson Center, 26 June 2017.
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
  • Michael Devine, Wilson Center.
  • Samuel Wells, Wilson Center.
  • The Steel Helmet, 1951.
  • The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1954.
  • Sayonara, 1957.
  • Pork Chop Hill, 1959.
  • Prisoner of War, 1954.
  • The Rack, 1956.
  • The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.
  • MASH, 1970.
  • USS Pueblo incident, January 1968.
  • War Memorial of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C..
  • National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • David Halberstam. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion Books (Hachette Book Group), 2007.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Korean War, 1950-1953, Digital Archive, Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center.
  • Michael Devine, "The Korean War Remembered: Seoul vs Pyongyang," Sources and Methods blog, Wilson Center, 23 June 2017.
• I collected more links for talks related to the Korean War in my post for McCullough, Truman (1992).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presidential Politics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• John Robert Greene, "1952 Presidential Election," Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 04 August 2015.
  • John Robert Greene, Cazenovia College.
  • John Robert Greene. I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • President Truman's relief of General Douglas MacArthur: Aftermath.
  • Tidelands controversy, 1940s-1950s.
  • Dixiecrat, 1948.
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  • Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio, January 1939 – July 1953.
  • Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, January 1943 – December 1954.
  • Lucius D. Clay, Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces in Europe and military governor of the U.S. Zone, Germany, 1947–1949.
  • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, January 1947 – January 1953.
  • Earl Warren, Governor of California, 1943–1953.
  • Draft Eisenhower movement.
  • 1952 Republican National Convention.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, April 1951 – May 1952.
  • Richard Nixon, U.S. Senator from California, December 1950 – January 1953.
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  • Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the U.S., June 1946 – September 1953.
  • Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, January 1949 – August 1963.
  • Kefauver Committee (United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce), 1950–1951.
  • Richard Russell Jr., U.S. Senator from Georgia, January 1933 – January 1971.
  • Robert S. Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, January 1943 – January 1947; U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, January 1949 – January 1963.
  • W. Averell Harriman.
  • Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the U.S., January 1949 – January 1953.
  • 1952 Democratic National Convention.
  • Adlai Stevenson II, Governor of Illinois 1949–1953.
  • John Sparkman, U.S. Senator from Alabama, November 1946 – January 1979.
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  • United States presidential election, 1952.
  • 1952 Eisenhower vs. Stevenson, Museum of the Moving Image.
  • Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech [C-SPAN.org, Wikipedia], 23 September 1952.
  • CBS News Election Coverage: November 4, 1952, YouTube.
  • Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Economy, Business, Transportation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(Some of these lectures could be placed equally appropriately in the "Culture" category.)

• Thomas Zeiler, "Abundance in 1950s and 1960s America," University of Colorado, Boulder, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 09 November 2011.
  • Tom Zeiler, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Post–World War II economic expansion.
  • Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
• Evan Friss, "Twentieth Century Suburbs," James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 15 November 2016.
  • Dr. Evan Friss, Department of History, James Madison University.
  • http://www.evanfriss.com/.
  • Suburb.
  • Central Park, 1857.
  • Llewellyn Park, Essex County, New Jersey.
  • Riverside, Illinois.
  • Streetcar suburb.
  • Industrial suburb.
  • Homestead, Pennsylvania.
  • Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), 1933.
  • Redlining.
  • Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
  • Levittown, New York, 1947.
  • Regarding the lecturer's comments about automobiles, note that he is a bicycle fanatic, having so far published two books about bicycling.
  • Columbia, Maryland.
  • James Rouse.
  • The Mall in Columbia.
  • Nathaniel M. Hood, "Going Viral: A Suburban Engagement (Photoshoot)," Strong Towns (website), 04 August 2015.
• Peter D. Norton, "Rise of Automobiles and American City Planning," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 22 January 2014.
  (This lecture is an example of what I call political advocacy disguised as history.)
  • Peter D. Norton, Department of Engineering and Society, College of Engineering, University of Virginia.
  • Peter Norton, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Virginia.
  • Peter D. Norton. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1963.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • Helen Leavitt. Superhighway--Superhoax. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Donald Shoup. The High Cost of Free Parking. New York: Routledge, 2011; 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • American automobile industry in the 1950s.
• Yanek Mieczkowski, "Post-World War II U.S. Auto Industry Mavericks," University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 17 November 2017.
  • Department of History, University of Central Florida.
  • Yanek Mieczkowski, LinkedIn.
  • 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy.
  • Autobahn.
  • Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
  • Interstate Highway System, construction authorized in 1956.
  • Harley Earl, head of the Art and Color Section of General Motors, 1927-1940, renamed the Styling Section in 1937; Vice President of Design at General Motors, 1940–1958.
  • Duesenberg Model J, 1928–1937 –– Lockheed P-38 Lightning, initial design 1937 –– Buick Y-Job, concept car 1938 –– North American F-86 Sabre, first flight 1947 –– General Motors Le Sabre, concept car 1951 –– 1959 Buick LeSabre –– Lincoln Futura, concept car 1955 –– Batmobile, 1966.
  • Preston Tucker.
  • Tucker 48.
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream, 1988.
  • John DeLorean, employed at Chrysler, 1952-1953; Packard, 1953-1956; General Motors, 1956-1973; DeLorean Motor Company, 1975-1982.
  • Pontiac GTO –– Pontiac Firebird –– Pontiac Grand Prix –– Chevrolet Cosworth Vega –– DeLorean DMC-12.
  • Elon Musk.
  • Tesla, Inc..
  • American automobile industry in the 1950s.
  • 1950s American automobile culture.
• Darren Dochuk, "Mid-20th Century American Oil Interests," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 20 March 2017.
  • Darren Dochuk, Department of History, University of Notre Dame.
  • Darren Dochuk. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Henry Luce (1898 – 1967) –– American Century, 1941.
  • History of the petroleum industry.
  • History of the petroleum industry in the United States.
  • Standard Oil Company, established in 1870.
  • Seven Sisters (oil companies).
  • Big Oil.
  • Wildcatter.
  • Harold L. Ickes, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, March 1933 – February 1946.
  • John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874 – 1960).
  • William A. Eddy (1896 – 1962).
  • Saudi Aramco.
  • Saudi Arabia–United States relations.
  • Texas oil boom.
  • East Texas Oil Field.
  • Aimee Semple McPherson (1890 – 1944).
  • H. L. Hunt (1889 – 1974).
  • Jake Simmons Jr. (1901 – 1981).
  • J. Howard Pew (1882 – 1971) –– Sunoco: History.
  • Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement, 1944.
  • Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy (1885 – 1973), I. A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation.
  • Tidelands controversy, 1940s-1950s.
  • Giant (1956 film).
  • Oiltown, U.S.A. (1953), IMDb.
  • Billy Graham (1918 – 2018).
  • American exceptionalism.
  • Kevin M. Schultz. Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Offshore oil and gas in the United States.
  • Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States).
  • Robert S. Kerr (1896 – 1963) –– Kerr-McGee, founded 1929.
  • Athabasca oil sands, Alberta, Canada.
  • Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta, 1943–1968.
  • OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, founded in 1960.
  • 1973 oil crisis.
  • Petroleum in the United States.
  • Energy policy of the United States.
• Joseph P. Schwieterman, "Passenger Rail in the Mid-1900s," DePaul University, Chicago, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 17 February 2015.
  • Joseph Schwieterman, School of Public Service, DePaul University.
  • Joseph P. Schwieterman. When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Eastern United States. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Joseph P. Schwieterman. When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Western United States. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • History of rail transport in the United States.
  • Rail transportation in the United States.
  • Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1933.
  • Samuel Insull (1859 – 1938).
  • History of passenger rail in Chicago.
  • Dearborn Station, Chicago.
  • Chicago Union Station.
  • Central Station (Chicago terminal), closed in 1972, demolished in 1974.
  • Grand Central Station (Chicago), closed in 1969, demolished in 1971.
  • North Western Terminal, now Ogilvie Transportation Center.
  • Amtrak, founded in 1971.
  • Milwaukee Road, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, bankruptcy 1977, merged into Canadian Pacific Railway 1986.
  • Avery, Idaho.
  • Reed City, Michigan.
  • Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
  • Xenia, Ohio.
  • Lackawanna Cut-Off.
  • Rail trail.
  • Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.
  • Expo Line (Los Angeles Metro).
• Robyn Muncy, "Women in the Workforce After World War II," University of Maryland, College Park, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 16 April 2013.
  • Robyn Leigh Muncy, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
  • History of women in the United States: Since 1941 (women in the workforce, but also lots about feminism).
  • Labor history of the United States (mostly about labor unions).
• David Schwartz, "Birth of the Las Vegas Strip [the 1940s]," University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 22 February 2011.
  • David G. Schwartz, Director, Center for Gaming Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
  • David G. Schwartz, dgschwartz.com.
  • David G. Schwartz. Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2003.
    [Publisher; Book Webpage at Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Spa town.
  • Agua Caliente, Tijuana, opened 1928.
  • Hoover Dam, completed 1936.
  • Las Vegas Boulevard.
  • Las Vegas Strip.
  • El Rancho Vegas, opened April 1941.
  • Beldon Katleman, owner of El Rancho Vegas, 1947-1960.
  • Las Vegas Army Airfield, now Nellis Air Force Base.
  • Henderson, Nevada.
  • Hotel Last Frontier, opened October 1942.
  • Silver Slipper, opened 1950.
  • The Flamingo Hotel & Casino, opened December 1946.
  • Bugsy Siegel (1906 – 1947).
  • William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890 – 1962), founded The Hollywood Reporter in 1930, began development of the Flamingo Hotel but sold it to Bugsy Siegel.
  • Meyer Lansky (1902 – 1983).
  • Thunderbird Hotel, opened September 1948.
  • Club Bingo, opened 1947, became the Sahara Hotel in 1952.
  • Jack Sheehan, editor. The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1997.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Culture ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• Paul Moreno, "1950s American Culture," Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 February 2017.
  • Paul Moreno, History, Hillsdale College.
  • Paul D. Moreno. The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Paul D. Moreno. The Bureaucrat Kings: The Origins and Underpinnings of America's Bureaucratic State. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger / ABC-CLIO, 2016).
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Victorian morality.
  • Protestant work ethic.
  • Bourgeoisie.
  • American Dream.
  • The African Queen (film), 1951.
  • Temperance movement versus Prohibition in the United States.
  • Prostitution in the United States.
  • Progressivism.
  • Mann Act (White-Slave Traffic Act), 1910.
  • Birth control in the United States.
  • Comstock laws.
  • United States in the 1950s.
  • Post–World War II economic expansion.
  • Baby boom: United States.
  • Mid-twentieth century baby boom.
  • Polio vaccine, Salk vaccine 1955, Sabin vaccine 1961.
  • Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1946.
  • Suburb: United States.
  • United States in the 1950s: Television.
  • Youth culture.
  • Rock and roll.
  • Origins of rock and roll.
  • Elvis Presley.
  • Sexual revolution.
  • Sexual revolution in 1960s United States.
  • James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William J. Rorabaugh, "1950s and '60s Counterculture," University of Washington, Seattle, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 09 February 2017.
  • William Rorabaugh, Department of History, University of Washington.
  • W. J. Rorabaugh (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
  • W. J. Rorabaugh. American Hippies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Bohemianism.
  • Beat Generation.
  • Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957.
  • Avant-garde.
  • The Living Theatre, New York, founded 1947.
  • Oh! Calcutta!, 1969.
  • Hair, 1967.
  • Counterculture of the 1960s.
  • Hippie.
  • History of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
  • Aldous Huxley.
  • Allen Ginsberg.
  • Timothy Leary.
  • Ken Kesey.
  • Acid Tests.
  • Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1967.
  • Hippie Commune, 1970s.
• John Bodnar, "Sexual Freedom in the 1950s," Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 18 September 2014.
  • John Bodnar, Department of History, Indiana University.
  • Baby boom: United States –– Mid-twentieth century baby boom.
  • Alfred Kinsey –– Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) –– Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). [Halberstam, The Fifties, Ch. 20.]
  • Tennessee Williams, playwright –– A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947 –– Marlon Brando, actor –– Elia Kazan, director –– A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film). [Halberstam, The Fifties, Ch. 19.]
  • Margaret Sanger –– Katharine McCormick –– Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology –– Enovid, "The Pill," first approved 1957, contraception indication approval 1960 –– Combined oral contraceptive pill. [Halberstam, The Fifties, Ch. 21, 40.]
  • Hugh Hefner –– Playboy magazine, first issue December 1953. [Halberstam, The Fifties, Ch. 37.]
  • Beat Generation –– Lucien Carr –– Jack Kerouac –– Allen Ginsberg –– William S. Burroughs –– Lawrence Ferlinghetti –– Howl, 1956 –– On the Road, 1957. [Halberstam, The Fifties, Ch. 22.]
  • Christine Jorgensen (1926 – 1989), transsexual.
  • Gallup's most admired man and woman poll –– Eleanor Roosevelt –– Clare Boothe Luce.
  • History of women in the United States: Since 1941.
• Felix Harcourt, "20th Century UFO Conspiracies," Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 23 March 2017.
  • Felix Harcourt, 2016-2017 Fellows, The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University.
  • Felix Harcourt, Austin College, Sherman, Texas.
  • UFO conspiracy theory, Wikipedia.
• Stephen Andrews, [Part 1 of 2] "Conspiracy Culture in American History," Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 13 July 2018.
  • Stephen Andrews, Adjunct + affiliated faculty, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington.
  • Spiritualism.
  • Conspiracy theory.
  • Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent. American Conspiracy Theories. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Richard Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Harper's Magazine, November 1964.
  • McCarthyism.
  • Second Red Scare (1947–57).
  • Illuminati.
  • Freemasonry.
  • Anti-Masonic Party, 1828-1838.
  • National Security Act of 1947.
  • Warren Commission, established November 1963, final report September 1964.
  • Pentagon Papers, first published 1971.
  • Watergate scandal, early 1970s.
  • Cuban Project, Operation Mongoose, 1960-1962.
  • COINTELPRO, COunter INTELligence PROgram, 1956–1971.
  • Church Committee, U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, created January 1975, final report published April 1976.
  • 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
  • 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
  • Tuskegee syphilis experiment, conducted 1932-1972, revealed July 1972.
  • Iran–Contra affair, 1980s.
  • Stargate Project, active 1978-1995, declassified 1995.
  • Operation Paperclip, active 1945-1959, declassified 1998.
  • Operation Northwoods, originated 1962, declassified 1997.
  • Operation Dirty Trick, part of Operation Mongoose, 1962.
  • Project MKUltra, 1953-1973, declassified 1977, 2001.
  • Rockefeller Commission, President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, established January 1975.
  • Operation Midnight Climax, a sub-project of Project MKUltra.
  • Skull and Bones, founded 1832.
  • Three tramps under police escort near the Texas School Book Depository on 22 November 1963 were not Bonesmen.
  • United States presidential election, 2004, Bush versus Kerry.
  • Secret society.
  • Bohemian Grove.
  • Comet Ping Pong, Washington, D.C. –– Pizzagate conspiracy theory, 2016.
  • UFO conspiracy theory.
  • Project Blue Book, 1952-1970.
  • Alien abduction.
  • Roswell UFO incident.
  • Milton William ("Bill") Cooper (1943–2001), Behold a Pale Horse, 1991.
  • Majestic 12.
  • Project Mogul, 1947–1949.
  • Area 51.
  • Cattle mutilation.
  • Lucifer.
  • Michael Kelly, "The Road to Paranoia," The New Yorker, 19 June 1995.
    Discusses "fusion paranoia".
  • Kathryn S. Olmsted. Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • New World Order (conspiracy theory).
  • George Bush, "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit," September 11, 1990. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
  • Ruby Ridge, August 1992.
  • Waco siege, February – April 1993.
  • Apocalypticism.
  • Oklahoma City bombing, 19 April 1995.
  • 9/11 conspiracy theories.
• Stephen Andrews, [Part 2 of 2] "Conspiracy Culture in Modern American Society," Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 13 July 2018.
  • Stephen Andrews, Adjunct + affiliated faculty, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington.
  • Michael Shermer. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997. New York: Henry Holt & Company (Macmillan), 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Religious Landscape Study, Religion & Public Life, Pew Research Center.
  • Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent. American Conspiracy Theories. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Gary Webb (1955–2004). Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, 1998.
  • CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking.
  • Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Left Behind, 1995-2007.
  • Agenda 21.
  • United States one-dollar bill.
  • John Poindexter –– Information Awareness Office.
  • Moon landing conspiracy theories.
  • Flat Earth.
  • Occam's razor.
  • Falsifiability.
  • Cui bono.
• Marcia Chatelain, "Race and Sex in the Mid-20th Century [on the teaching of sex education during the 1940s and 1950s]," Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 19 March 2015.
  • Marcia Chatelain, Faculty, Department of History, Georgetown University.
  • Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University.
  • Susan K. Freeman. Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • The Story of Menstruation, Walt Disney, 1946, YouTube.
  • Human Growth, Lester F. Beck, University of Oregon, 1947.
  • Sex education in the United States (about current educational practices, not history as in the lecture or Freeman's book).
  • Adolescence.
  • Karl de Schweinitz. Growing Up: The Story of How We Become Alive, Are Born and Grow Up. New York: Macmillan, 1928.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Baby Can Wait, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Medicine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• Sally G. McMillen, "Polio Epidemic in the United States," Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 09 April 2013.
  • Emeriti Faculty, History Department, Davidson College.
  • David M. Oshinsky. Polio: An American Story. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • Poliomyelitis.
  • History of poliomyelitis.
  • Poliovirus.
  • Rockefeller University, founded in 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.
  • Simon Flexner, first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1901–1935.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Paralytic illness and political comeback (1921–1928).
  • March of Dimes, founded in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
  • John Franklin Enders –– Thomas Huckle Weller –– Frederick Chapman Robbins.
  • Oveta Culp Hobby, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, April 1953 – July 1955.
  • Polio vaccine, Salk vaccine 1955, Sabin vaccine 1961.
  • Jonas Salk.
  • Albert Sabin.
  • Poliomyelitis eradication.
  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California, founded in 1960.
• Naoko Wake, "Psychiatry in the Mid-20th Century," Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 24 October 2016.
  • Naoko Wake, Department of History, Michigan State University.
  • Naoko Wake. Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • History of psychiatry.
  • Social hygiene movement (Mental hygiene movement).
  • Shell shock, World War I.
  • Combat stress reaction, World War II.
  • William Alanson White (1870 – 1937).
  • Harry Stack Sullivan (1892 – 1949).
  • Clara Thompson (1893 – 1958).
  • Karen Horney (1885 – 1952).
  • Melanie Klein (1882 – 1960).
  • Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), created May 1942.
    WAAC renamed/reorganized as Women's Army Corps, July 1943.
  • United States home front during World War II.

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• Allyson Hobbs, "The Great Migration," Stanford University, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 10 May 2011.
  • Allyson Hobbs, Department of History, Stanford University.
  • allyson hobbs, allysonhobbs.com.
  • Great Migration (African American), 1910s-1970s.
  • Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2010.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jim Crow laws.
  • Civil rights movement.
  • Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of The Chicago Defender newspaper, 1905.
  • Richard Wright (1908 – 1960).
  • Chicago race riot of 1919, July 27 – August 3, 1919.
  • National Urban League, founded 1910.
  • Jacob Lawrence (1917 – 2000).
  • Jacob Lawrence : The Migration Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC.
  • One-Way Ticket Exhibition, 2015, MoMA.
• Krystal Frazier, "Emmett Till and Great Migration Families," West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 31 March 2015.
  • Krystal Frazier, Department of History, West Virginia University.
  • Africana Studies, Department of History, West Virginia University.
  • Great Migration (African American).
  • Clifton Taulbert (b. 1945). Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oak Books, 1989. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • Emmett Till, murdered 28 August 1955.
  • Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem.
  • Claude Brown (1937 – 2002). Manchild in the Promised Land. New York: Macmillan & Co, 1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • Charles Neblett (b. 1941).
  • John Lewis (b. 1940), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia, 1987-present.
  • James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America: Volume 2: From the Civil War to the Millennium. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Joyce Ladner (b. 1943).
  • Anne Moody (1940 – 2015). Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Doubleday, 1968. New York: Dell (Random House), 1992.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
• Suzanne Smith, "Murder of Emmett Till," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 March 2013.
  • Suzanne E. Smith, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
  • Scottsboro Boys, Alabama, March 1931.
  • Moore's Ford lynchings, Georgia, 25 July 1946.
  • Emmett Till, murdered 28 August 1955.
  • James E. Goodman. Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Laura Wexler. Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America. New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Christopher Metress, editor. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • William Bradford Huie, "The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi," Look, 24 January 1956. [Article Text at Famous Trials website.]
• Quintard Taylor, "1950s Civil Rights Movement," University of Washington, Seattle, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 16 February 2012.
  • Quintard Taylor, Department of History, University of Washington.
  • Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., quintardtaylor.com.
  • Quintard Taylor. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954.
  • Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama, December 1955 — December 1956.
  • Little Rock Nine, desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957.
  • The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell, 1964.
  • Civil rights movement (1896–1954).
  • Civil rights movement.
  • Covenant (law): Exclusionary covenants (restrictive covenant).
  • Charles Hamilton Houston (1895 – 1950).
  • William H. Hastie (1904 – 1976).
  • Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993).
  • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 1950.
  • Polio vaccine, Salk vaccine 1955, Sabin vaccine 1961.
  • Racial segregation in the United States.
  • Massive resistance.
  • White Citizens' Councils.
  • National Association for the Advancement of White People.
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.
  • Rita Schwerner Bender (b. 1942).
  • Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 1964.
  • Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, January 1955 – January 1967.
  • Search Google Images for Will Counts.
  • Will Counts, photojournalist.
  • Jess Zimmerman, "Behind the Photo: "She Walked Alone" (Little Rock Nine)," History by Zim: Beyond the Textbooks.
  • Elizabeth Eckford, student.
  • Hazel Bryan Massery, student.
  • Timeline of the civil rights movement.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957, September 1957.
  • Sit-in movement, 1960-1964.
  • George Long (?-2010), BlackPast.org.
  • Clara Luper (1923-2011), BlackPast.org.
  • Clara Luper (1923 – 2011), led the civil rights movement in Oklahoma City.
  • Oklahoma City Sit-ins, NBC News, Library of Congress.
  • Ron Walters (1938 – 2010), led the Dockum Drug Store sit-in demonstrations in Wichita, Kansas in 1958.
  • Greensboro sit-ins, Greensboro, North Carolina, February – July, 1960.
  • United States presidential election, 1960.
  • Decolonisation of Africa.
  • Nashville sit-ins, February – May, 1960.
  • Diane Nash (b. 1938).
  • James Lawson (b. 1928).
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960–1976.
  • Ella Baker (1903 – 1986).
  • Marion Barry (1936 – 2014), Chairmen of SNCC 1960-1961.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded 1957.
  • Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960–1962.
  • H. Rap Brown (b. 1943), Chairmen of SNCC 1967-1968.
  • Bob Moses (b. 1935).
  • Freedom Riders, 1961.
  • Birmingham campaign, 1963.
  • Bull Connor (1897 – 1973), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama 1937–1952, 1957–1963.
  • Medgar Evers (1925 – 1963), murdered 12 June 1963.
• James Spurlock, "President Eisenhower and Civil Rights," George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 25 July 2011.
  • James W. Spurlock, Ph.D., LinkedIn.
  • United States in the 1950s: Television.
  • I Love Lucy: Pregnancy and Little Ricky, 19 January 1953.
  • Executive Order 9980, 26 July 1948, abolished discrimination in U.S. civil service.
  • Executive Order 9981, 26 July 1948, abolished discrimination in U.S. armed forces.
  • Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947.
  • United States presidential election, 1948, Truman versus Dewey versus Thurmond.
  • United States presidential election, 1952, Eisenhower versus Stevenson.
  • The Crew Cuts - Sh Boom Sh Boom –– The Chords - Sh-Boom, YouTube.
  • Elvis Presley (1935–1977).
  • Race record.
  • Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Civil rights.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 17 May 1954.
  • Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the U.S., 1946–1953.
  • Earl Warren, Governor of California, 1943–1953, Chief Justice of the U.S., 1953–1969.
  • Warren Court, October 1953 – June 1969.
  • Herbert Brownell Jr., U.S. Attorney General, January 1953 – October 1957.
  • Voice of America: Cold War.
  • Brown II, 1955.
  • Southern Manifesto, March 1956.
  • Massive resistance.
  • Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama, December 1955 — December 1956.
  • Rosa Parks (1913–2005).
  • Martin Luther King Jr..
  • Decolonisation of Africa.
  • James F. Byrnes, Governor of South Carolina, January 1951 – January 1955.
  • United States presidential election, 1956, Eisenhower versus Stevenson.
  • Little Rock Nine, desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957.
  • Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, January 1955 – January 1967.
  • "President Eisenhower Speech on Little Rock," C-SPAN.org, 24 September 1957.
  • Cooper v. Aaron, 1958.
• Jean H. Baker, "Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968," Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 07 March 2013.
  • History, Goucher College.
  • Jean H. Baker (b. 1933), Wikipedia.
  • Edward Hallett Carr. What Is History? London: Macmillan, 1961. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. New York: Vintage Books, 1967. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "What is History Now?" in What is History Now?, edited by David Cannadine. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Howell Raines. My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South. New York: Putnam, 1977. New York: Penguin Books, 1983.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Civil rights movement, Wikipedia.
  • R. Scott Baker. Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Donald Spivey, "Satchel Paige, Negro Leagues Baseball, and Civil Rights," University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 13 February 2014.
  • Donald Spivey, Department of History, University of Miami.
  • Donald Spivey. If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Negro league baseball.
  • Satchel Paige (1906–1982).
  • Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), Brooklyn Dodgers, 15 April 1947.
  • Alabama's Colored Women's Club.
  • Cornelia Bowen (1865-1934).
  • Mount Meigs Colored Institute, Mount Meigs, Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • Mt. Meigs Negro Boys' Reformatory, Mount Meigs, Montgomery County, Alabama, where Satchel Paige resided 1918-1923.
  • Birmingham Black Barons, 1920–1960.
  • Bull Connor (1897–1973), baseball announcer at Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama.
  • Scottsboro Boys, Alabama, March 1931.
  • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949).
  • Lynching of Claude Neal, 26 October 1934.
  • Effa Manley (1897–1981).
  • California Winter League.
  • Bismarck Churchills, integrated baseball team.
  • Double V campaign, World War II.
  • Derrick Bell. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Nathan D. B. Connolly, "The Promise of Suburbia," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 15 March 2011.
  • N. D. B. Connolly, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University.
  • N. D. B. Connolly. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • National Housing Act of 1934.
  • Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
  • Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
  • Housing discrimination (United States).
  • Housing segregation in the United States.
  • Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 1968.
  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971.
  • San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 1973.
  • Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 1977.
  • Mount Laurel doctrine, 1975, 1983.
  • Year of the Bull (2003), IMDb.
  • CH2M, now owned by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
• Brian Purnell, "Urban America in the Mid-20th Century," Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 01 February 2012.
  • Brian Purnell, Africana Studies, Bowdoin College.
  • Thomas J. Sugrue. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996; 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
  • John McWhorter. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. New York: Gotham Books (Penguin Group), 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Arnold R. Hirsch. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • The Wire, 2002-2008.
  • Great Migration (African American).
  • Deindustrialisation by country: United States.
  • Watts riots, 11-16 August 1965.
  • Long, hot summer of 1967.
    (Note that 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco.)
  • 1967 Newark riots, 12-17 July 1967.
  • 1967 Detroit riot, 23-28 July 1967.
  • Kerner Commission, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, established July 1967, report published February 1968.
  • National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. The Kerner Report. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • White flight.
  • Ghetto: United States.
  • Racial segregation in the United States.
  • Residential segregation in the United States.
  • Public housing in the United States.
  • The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), http://pruitt-igoe.com/.
    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), Wikipedia.
    Search YouTube for: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.
  • William Julius Wilson. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, 1965.
    Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor (March 1965) "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action" – Moynihan Report, hosted by Department of Labor, 1965.

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Other parts of this post:

• Part 1: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993)
• Table of Contents: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Table of Contents

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