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1950s Pop Culture and American Consumerism Zach Panzarino Sarah Lara American Consumerism Boost of Purchases Better jobs after the war Lack of consumer goods during the war 20 million refrigerators, 24.1 million cars, 5.5

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1950’s Pop Culture and American Consumerism

Zach Panzarino Sarah Lara

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  • Boost of Purchases

○ Better jobs after the war ○ Lack of consumer goods during the war

  • 20 million refrigerators, 24.1 million

cars, 5.5 million stoves

  • 5 million televisions per year

American Consumerism

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  • Men wore gray flannel suits
  • Women wore dresses
  • Teenagers were represented by James Dean

Clothing

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  • Teeneageers were looking for

excitement and freedom

  • Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and

Chuck Berry

  • Elvis felt that dancing was

important in addition to singing

  • Helped create the generation gap

Rock ‘n Roll

Elvis Presley

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  • 1952- The Immigration and

Naturalization Act of 1952 was created

  • 1954- Racial segregation was

ruled unconstitutional in public schools

  • 1955- Rosa Parks refused to give

up her seat on a bus

Racial

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  • Baseball: Jackie Robinson, Roy

Campanella, Henry (Hank) Aaron, Juan Marichal

  • Football: Jim Brown and Frank

Gifford

  • Golf: Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer
  • Boxing: Sugar Ray Robinson and

Rocky Marciano

Sports

Hank Aaron

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1956- The Federal Highway Act 1958- The first domestic jet-airline passenger service begun

Travel

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  • 8,000 sets in use in the 1940’s grew to 40 million

sets in use in the 1950’s

  • First shows were comedy, action or adventure

○ game shows also became popular late in the ‘50s

  • Made sports one of the top sources of

entertainment

  • Advertising presented a new market

American Television

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  • Popular Culture of the 1950s." N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. <http:

//admin.bhbl.neric.org/~mmosall/ushistory/textbook/Chapter%2027% 20Postwar%20America/ch%2027%20sect%203%20Pop%20Culture.pdf>.

  • Bradley, Becky . "1950-1959." American Cultural History. Lone Star

College- Kingwood Library, 1998. Web. 7 Feb. 2011.

  • "The Rise of American Consumerism." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general- article/tupperware-consumer/>.

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