1950's-Good+or+Bad+Days?

Positives: Negatives:
 * Living the American Dream
 * Population grew by about 30 million because of the baby boom
 * Eisenhower kept the New Deal and increased the minimum wage for workers
 * Many families moved to suburbs
 * Music boomed and rock 'n' roll became very big
 * Television shows were booming too such as I Love Lucy
 * One out of 5 americans lived in poverty
 * African Americans and Latinos were majorly affected by the urban decay
 * Women were confined to house keeping and job openings were limited
 * poets and writers protested people were living in a "square" society