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1950-1959

Political and Social History Literature
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