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A Bittersweet Decade

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The 1950s in America were typically "happy days", when television told Americans that they were clean cut, straight-toothed and upstanding. They were also painful days, when the nascent civil rights movement forced white America to face up to the hypocrisy of racial segregation. Ramond Seitz , former US
Ambassador to the UK, looks back at what sociologists call the last black and white decade. Rptd from Sunday

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