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The 1950s

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Censorship

McCarthyism

and the

Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

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Soviet Man vs. “American” Soviet Man

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The Perfect Decade?

Leave it to Beaver (1957)

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Dr. Frederic Wertham

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Bill Gaines,

EC Comics

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Area 51

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Joseph McCarthy

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Korean War

General MacArthur

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The Emmett Till Controversy

Emmett Till (Right) had an open casket funeral to show what had happened to him to the world. His killers would be acquitted of the crime (above).

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/02/23/emmett-till-s-family-reacts-accuser-s-confession-60-years-later

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Montgomery Bus Boycott