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Wrong. It was a great time for every American. You’re just too dim witted to know.1950 America was a great time if you were a white, male, straight, Christian.
You were entitled to all the best job opportunities, highest wages, access to the best services.
Others were expected to......know your place
Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States
A shameful part of America’s history.
www.pbs.org
Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century. Driven by prejudiced notions of science and social control, these programs informed policies on immigration and segregation.
Human experiments, on black men.
Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL - Timeline - CDC - OS
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Timeline
www.cdc.gov
Blacklists, persecution, snitches, compulsory loyalty oaths...McCarthy
Polio was an epidemic around the world.
Wiping Out Polio: How The U.S. Snuffed Out A Killer
During the early 20th century, polio killed thousands of American children each summer and paralyzed many more. Now, as the world fights to eradicate the virus globally, we look back at the development of the polio vaccine and its successful deployment around the world.
www.npr.org
Norman Rockwell, a gifted recorder of American life...painted a pristine American landscape in the 40's and 50's...
He had not yet painted these...
I don't believe in Golden Ages.