1. US History of the 1960s  Dave Richards  Office: Netzer 225  Phone: 436-3326  Hours: By Appointment  Email: Richards@oneonta.edu

2. Day One  Syllabus  Overview  Lecture: The 1950s- Seeds of the Sixties

3. America in the 1950s  The Economy  Wealth and Poverty in a land of plenty  Rumblings of Discontent  Consensus and Conformity in the Suburbs  Signs of things to come

8. Levittown, New York

9. Levittown

12. 1950s Economy

13.  Consumer oriented

14. 1950s Economy  Consumer oriented  Rising real income across class lines

15. 1950s Economy  Consumer oriented  Rising real income across class lines  Easy credit availability

16. 1950s Economy  Consumer oriented  Rising real income across class lines  Easy credit availability  Business consolidation

17. 1950s Economy  Consumer oriented  Rising real income across class lines  Easy credit availability  Business consolidation  Decline in unskilled jobs and rise in white-collar employment

18. 1950s Economy  Consumer oriented  Rising real income across class lines  Easy credit availability  Business consolidation  Decline in unskilled jobs and rise in white-collar employment  Increase in government defense spending

19. Inequality of Wealth  Top ½ of 1% controlled 19% of wealth in 1949  Increased to 25% by 1956  Top 1% controlled 33% of the wealth- 1960  Bottom 20% controlled less than.005%!  40 million Americans (22%) lived below the poverty level in 1960!

20. Levittown

21. A Nation on the Move

22. Diner

23. MacDonalds

24. I Remember Mama

25. The Life of Riley

26. Father Knows Best

27. Leave it to Beaver

28. Donna Reed Show

29. Ozzie and Harriet

30. Glenn Miller Orchestra

31. Bill Haley and the Comets

32. Marlon Brando

33. Brando- On the Waterfront

34. James Dean

35. The Beats

36. Alan Ginsberg