The media staff researched this topic for you and have found the following sites helpful.  These sources are outside of the Plainfield South High School Media Center and District 202.  Remember, when you are searching the internet, you need to be aware of who authored the article you are using in your presentation/paper.  Don't forget our databases!!!

American Cultural History
 http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html  

Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/bus_boycott.html

Civil Rights Sites from Multnomah County Library
If you can't find resources, this is the place.
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/  

Family Life
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/info-family.htm

Inventions   
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/inventions.htm

Fads – 3D Movies, Chlorophyll, Coonskin Caps, Hula Hoops, Think Pink!, Poodles, Telephone Cramming
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/fads.htm

Little Rock Central High 40th anniversary (1957-58 school year, video)
http://www.centralhigh57.org

Paint by Numbers – a 1950s Fad
http://americanhistory.si.edu/paint/index.html

Slang
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/slang.htm

Fashion – see list on left side of screen
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/fashion.htm

Television
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv50.htm

TV Westerns
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/western.htm

Quiz Show Scandals – Choose People and Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/peopleevents/index.html

The Rosenberg Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM

Search for more Musicians of the 1950s
http://www.history-of-rock.com/

Fifties Music
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/music.htm

Famous People
Jonas Salk – Polio Vaccine
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0bio-1
http://www.wic.org/bio/jsalk.htm

Buddy Holly
http://www.history-of-rock.com/buddy_holly.htm
http://www.history-of-rock.com/american.htm

Marilyn Monroe
http://ellensplace.net/marilyn.html

James Dean
http://www.jamesdean.com/

Frank Sinatra
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Sinatra,_Frank/index.html

John Wayne
http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Wayne,_John/index.html

Joe DiMaggio
http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=14258
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/peopleevents/pande02.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/timeline/index.html

African American History
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/index.html

General 20th Century Resources
http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs5.html

Brown Foundation (Brown vs Board of Education)
http://brownvboard.org

Central High  National Historical Site
http://www.nps.gov/chsc/historyculture/index.htm

Gates of Change
A wonderful article about Central High School in Little Rock, Alabama
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=40&ar=780