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 * __15 pictures

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President Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Bill which paves the way for the territory's later admission into the union. July 7, 1958



American tanks and jeeps filled with soldiers make their way down a dusty road in Korea during the Korean Conflict.



Here a black woman, Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sits on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Building with her daughter Nickie holding a newspaper with the headline, "High Court Bans Segregation in Public Schools."



This is a publicity portrait of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for the "Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" television series.

Signs once used to separate the races at public facilities are shown in a pile headed for the trash.



Dr. Jonas Salk inoculates a boy with the polio vaccine as two nurses assist him.

Elvis Presley not only "shake, rattle, and rolled" across the country, he also appeared in popular movies, such as the one he is shown in here, "Jailhouse Rock."



A family gathers to watch early television in this 1950s photograph.



Jackie Robinson is shown in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform ready to swing the bat. He broke baseball's color barrier by becoming the first African American player in Major League Baseball.



As president of the Arkansas NAACP Daisy Bates coordinated the efforts to integrate Little Rock's public schools after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed segregated public schools in 1954.

Rosa Parks is shown here walking with her attorney, Charles D. Langford, and a deputy on her way to jail in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested and found guilty of disorderly conduct. The Montgomery bus boycott began as a result of her conviction.



Marilyn Monroe entertains American troops on stage at the USO.



This is an aerial view of Levittown, New York, in the 1950s.



President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the nation concerning the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and used them to protect the nine African-American students who were attempting to go to a previously all white school amidst an angry mob.



President Eisenhower signing the Hawaii Statehood Bill in the Oval Office, March 18, 1959.


 * __2 Speeches__**

[|Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace"] At 1:45 we can hear Ike's pursuit for peace.

[|Truman speech about Korean War] Truman gives a speech about why we need to stop the spread of communism in Korea.


 * __Folk Songs__**

[|The Gambler] This song is about how gambling is becoming a big hit and a fun thing to do.

[|The Roamer] This song was about how people would ride railroads their whole life and just explore the world, many people would do this their entire life. [|Jailhouse Rock]


 * __5 Pictures around Medina__**



A model toy of a car from the 1950s.



Inside Dan's Dogs, a 1950s restaurant.



Mcdonalds was started in the 1950s. The party station has a whole isle dedicated to the 1950s.The 1950s is a popular party theme.

A man who served in the Korean War who is buried in the Medina Cementary.