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Fashions and street scenes in United States in the 1950s.
A man in white shirt, white trousers and black jacket is walking on a busy street, cars can be seen in background. Older men wearing shorts and high socks. Girl Scouts in uniform. Marching band in a parade. Native American Indian people wrapped in colorful blankets. Girls in blue jeans.
Street scenes and fashions in the United States in the 1950s
Woman in blue top and Capri pants window shopping. A man carrying a briefcase emerges from a building. Women wearing fur coats, some with leopard print. African American man in black leather jacket. People walking at a county fair. Girls in letterman jackets.
American men and women at work and on holidays in 1950s
Images of life and typical lifestyle in America in the 1950s, including work, leisure and recreation activities. American workers work in a steel plant. Worker with protective goggles near blast furnace at work. Men and women workers in factory assembly lines including a canning factory and a light bulb factory. Woman packaging completed light bulbs at manufacturing plant. Various machines performing heavy industrial labor in the United States. Station wagon assembled on a car assembly line in an American automobile factory. John Deere farm tractors rolling off assembly line. American men and women, white and African American, assembling electrical components. Workers exit their factory after work shift. Labor representatives and corporate managers of a American company in a collective bargaining meeting. Aerial view of a post-war residential suburban neighborhood. Street view in suburb as station wagon drives into driveway of home. Children and wife greet American man coming home after work. Vintage suburban scene with period-typical housewife and family image. Man reads to children in living room while woman sews. 1950s cars on an expressway highway as people go to see a baseball game on holidays. American people watch baseball and football games in stadium during holidays. Baseball scene is in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City. New York Yankee player with jersey number 8, Yogi Berra, is at bat. Yogi Berra gets a hit down deep down the 3rd base line. Next scene shows a football stadium with an American football game in progress. Scene changes to an American man fishing on a holiday. People working in their home gardens and seated on porches of their homes. American family on a picnic in public park, seated at a picnic table. A young child sleeps, napping during the picnic. Arts and culture: Men and women reading and studying at the Library of Congress. Views of various magazines and books read by Americans. Patrons view contemporary American paintings displayed in a art gallery or art museum. Young American sculptors sculpting in an art studio. Symphony Orchestra performs on stage as audience listens in a concert hall.
Jim Crow Laws affecting African Americans from finding justice and equality despite of the 13th and 14th Amendments during the 20th century
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a bus during the 1950s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.
Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.
Fashionable family at home shows a 1950's American family lifestyle
Vintage suburban American family and fashions in 1950s. Man by the fireplace in a room. His wife seated, wearing a white top and dark colored skirt. Man's sister chats. Woman wearing new dress lights up a cigarette. Husband shows a new jacket whose lining matches the wearer's tie. Mother plays with his baby. Family in the United States relaxes.
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