The Fifties: An Underground History
威尼斯人娱乐场 Museum
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Author James R. Gaines argues that the 1950s were not a decade of conformity but a time when individuals pioneered the gay rights, feminist rights, civil rights, and environmental movements. The Fifties brings to life the people who sparked movements for change in their time and our own. Of the many discussed are Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the argument that made sex discrimination illegal, only one of her gifts to 21st-century feminism. We meet Harry Hay, who dreamed of a national gay-rights movement as early as the mid-1940s. And we hear the voices of Silent Spring鈥檚 Rachel Carson and MIT鈥檚 preeminent mathematician, Norbert Wiener, whose legacy is the environmental movement.
On April 1 the 威尼斯人娱乐场 releases the 1950 population census schedules.
Census programming is made possible in part by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Foundation through the generous support of Denise Gwyn Ferguson.
All events listed in the calendar are free unless noted.