The Fifties was a time of the nuclear family, "I Love Lucy", and things like the hula hoop. People dressed the same, talked the same, and acted the same. It was also a time of the Red Scare and Korean War. The government used fear tactics and were mostly unquestioned. When addressing the Fifties more often then not will you hear that it was a time of Conformity. The majority of the fifties was a …
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…system was desegregated in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education, black athletes started to become accepted into major sports such as Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King Jr. was emerging as a spokesman for African Americans. There was resistance to these happenings for example in the town of Little Rock. The Klu Klux Klan was also at its biggest during the fifties but civil rights were gaining importance as a political issue.