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American Portraits:
Robert Frank’s The Americans
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Robert Frank, Indianapolis, c. 1956.
Photograph.
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Robert Frank, Ranch Market, Hollywood, c. 1956.
Photograph.
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Robert Frank, Elevator, Miami Beach, c. 1956.
Photograph.
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Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1956.
Photograph.
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Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, c. 1956.
Photograph.
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Robert Frank, U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1956.
Photograph.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Robert Frank, U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1956.
Photograph.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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Deliberate Speed: The 1950s
Timeline: The 1950s
The Free World
The Cold War at Home
Free Enterprise and Consumption
Whiteness and Postwar America
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1. Timeline: The 1950s
Senator Joseph McCarthy launches anticommunist crusade.
Korean War begins.
Twenty-second Amendment limits presidents to two terms.
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president.
Rosenbergs executed as spies.
Armistice in Korea.
1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlaws school segregation.
1955 Montgomery bus boycott reignites black civil rights struggle.
Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim.
1956 Federal Highway Act authorizes building of superhighways.
Eisenhower reelected president.
Federal troops enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Soviet Union launches Sputnik.
1958 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) created.
1959 Castro comes to power in Cuba.
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2. The Free World
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, May, 1945.
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The Potsdam Conference, 1945.
Signing the United Nations Charter, 1945.
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“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure.”
President Harry S. Truman, 1947.
The Pentagon, 1951.
David Douglas Duncan, U.S. jet flies over farmers at the beginning of the War, 1950.
Photograph.
David Douglas Duncan, Marine Capt. Francis “Ike” Fenton and troops, 1950.
Photograph.
3. The Cold War at Home
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his assistant Roy Cohn, c. 1953.
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his assistant Roy Cohn, c. 1953.
Anticommunism at Home
Americans: way to support foreign policy
Convervatives: enemy was New Deal liberalism
Democrats: could prove loyalty
Business: pushback against government
White supremacists: attack civil rights
Employers: attack unions
Traditionalists: attack homosexuality
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Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954.
Oil and collage on fabric. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955.
Mixed media. Geffen Collection.
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4. Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War
Ralston Crawford, Bikini, Tour of Inspection, 1946.
Oil on canvas. Estate of Ralston Crawford.
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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm No. 30, 1950.
Oil on canvas.
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Peggy Guggenheim on the steps of Greek Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1948.
Poster, 1948 Venice Biennale.
Thomas Hart Benton, Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934.
Oil on canvas. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm No. 30, 1950.
Oil on canvas.
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Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock, 1950.
Photograph.
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Mark Rothko, No. 7 (Green and Maroon), 1953.
Oil on canvas.
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Barnett Newman, Day One, 1952.
Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York
“We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostaliga, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been the devices of western European painting. Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or ‘life,’ we are making them out of ourselves, out of our own feelings.”
Barnett Newman, 1948.
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5. Free Enterprise and Consumption
Levittown, New York.
Levittown, 1957.
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The Stack north of Downtown Los Angeles, 1959.
Photograph.
Pacific Electric “redcars,” ca. 1950.
Orange County Plaza, Garden Grove, 1957.
William Safire, Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon, American National Exhibition, Moscow, 1959. Photograph.
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Restricted new housing tract, Southern California.
Photograph.
Lakewood, California, 1950s.
Photograph.
5. Race and Postwar America
Robert Frank, Charleston, South Carolina, 1958.
Photograph.
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Francis Miller, Strom Thurmond and supporters on election night, 1948.
Photograph.
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A mother and daughter pose on the steps of the Supreme Court Building, Washington, following the Brown decision, 1954.
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