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Primary Source Documents · 1946–1959

Postwar

The early Cold War, prosperity, and the dawn of the civil rights era.

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1947Marshall Statement To The Senate 1947Taft-Hartley Act 1947The "Truman Doctrine" 1947McCarren Internal Security 1949Harry S. Truman's Presidential Inaugural Address 1950Harry S. Truman's National Emergency 1952Youngstown Sheet & Tube vs. Sawyer 1953Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidential Inaugural Address 1954Brown vs. The Board Of Education 1954United States vs. Lattimore 1957Civil Right Act 1957Dwight D. Eisenhower's 2nd Presidential Inaugural Address 1957Dwight D. Eisenhower's On the Middle East 1958President Eisenhower On U.S. Troops To Lebanon 1958President Eisenhower On Little Rock 1958N.A.A.C.P. vs. Alabama

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