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1950-1959 |
1950 Senator Joseph
McCarthy begins attacks on communism
1950-53 Korean War
1953 House Concurrent Resolution 108
dictates government's intention to terminate its treaty relations with
Native-American tribes
1954 Brown v. Board of Education declares segregated schools
unconstitutional
1956 Martin Luther King Jr. leads bus
boycott in Montgomery, Alabama |
1951 Saul Bellow,
Looking for Mr. Green
1952 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
1955 Flannery O'Connor, Good
Country People
1956 Gore Vidal, The Robin
1958 Bernard Malamud, The Magic
Barrel
1959 Philip Roth, Defender of the Faith
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