Documents depicting the 1950s : a decade of conformity and dissent / compiled and edited by Stephen H. Paschen and Leonard Schlup ; with a foreword by William C. Binning.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-606) and index.
Contents:
The public library service demonstration bill / James W. Wadsworth, Harold H. Velde, Dewey J. Short, Wright Patman, John Jennings, John Lesinski, Carl D. Perkins, and Andrew Jacobs -- Marshall plan assistance / Arthur H. Vandenberg -- Bipartisan foreign policy / Homer Ferguson -- Address on foreign policy / Harry S. Truman -- The civil rights issue must not be a political football / Vito A. Marcantonio -- Which way to peace and freedom? / Walter H. Judd -- Selective service law / Millard E. Tydings -- Employment of homosexuals and other sex perverts in government / Senate investigations Subcommittee Report -- Letter to an American mother / Sigmund Freud -- Address to Congress / Douglas MacArthur -- Introducing a civil rights legislative program / Hubert H. Humphrey -- The fight against Communism / Pat McCarran -- Investigation of organized crime / Estes Kefauver -- The way to freedom / John Foster Dulles -- Radio broadcast / Robert A. Taft -- America the beautiful / Ronald Reagan -- Veto for the McCarran-Walter bill / Harry S. Truman -- Concession Speech / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Draft of report to President Truman / Eleanor Roosevelt -- The speakership / Joseph W. Martin -- The Bricker amendment / John W. Bricker -- Farewell address / Harry S. Truman -- Inauguration address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Civil rights legislation / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- American agriculture / Everett M. Dirksen -- Last chance in Indochina / Mike Mansfield -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka / Earl Warren -- Extension of voting rights to citizens at age eighteen / William Langer -- The commonwealth of Puerto Rico / Antonio FernoĢs-Isern -- The strike against American Airlines / Thomas J. Murray -- Accomplishments and failures of the eighty-third Congress / Sam Rayburn -- Senate condemnation of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy / Sam Ervin, Arthur Watkins, and Bourke Hickenlooper -- Court order can't make the races mix / Zora Neale Hurston -- Time, chance, and an appointment with history / Rosa Parks -- Medical research / Margaret Chase Smith -- Southern manifesto / Ninety-Six Politicians -- Federal aid highway act / Prescott S. Bush -- The power of propaganda in Southeast Asia / Thomas A. Dooley -- The Eisenhower doctrine / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Standard of living of the American Indian / James E. Murray -- The school crisis / Walter Lippmann -- Selection of ambassadors / Theodore F. Green -- The administration of our government / Leverett Saltonstall -- Natural resources: God's gifts are man's challenges / Wayne L. Morse -- The mutual security act of 1957 / George D. Aiken -- Senate confirmation hearing for the ambassadorship to Ceylon / J. William Fulbright and Maxwell H. Gluck -- Conservation of natural resources / Fred A. Seaton -- Smoking and health / Leroy E. Burney, Calvin T. Klopp, and Wallace F. Bennett -- Federal assistance to education / George S. McGovern -- Loving your enemies / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- United Nations Security Council speech on Lebanon / Henry Cabot Lodge -- United States military power / John F. Kennedy -- School Integration at Little Rock / Orval E. Faubus -- National defense education act / Edwin K. Thomson -- Commission to study problems of alcoholism / Olin D.T. Johnston -- Economic assistance to Native Americans / William Langer -- Responsibility of the individual senator: The caucus / William Proxmire -- The massive irresponsibility of the spenders / Barry M. Goldwater -- Defense appropriations / Gerald R. Ford -- Speech before the American Medical Association / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Oregon primary election law / Richard L. Neuberger -- Alaska and Hawaii statehood / Ernest Gruening.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.