Examples Of Disillusionment In The 1950's

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The 1950s may have been a decade of conformity, prosperity, and consensus but it was also filled with turbulence, and disillusionment. The disillusionment would be denying people their rights. On Document B, it shows the Senator McCarthy Extinguishes the Torch of Liberty, Which was a symbol of McCarthy accusing a lot of people of being communists and a lot of people weren’t happy. Lastly, the turbulence was the rocky path the African Americans had to go through. Document E, shows a picture of an African American girl being yelled at by a white person. Elizabeth Eckford, the girl shown on the picture goes to an all white school and is waiting for the bus in peace while being yelled at by a white person. This is important because they are starting