Title: Suburbanization in the 1950s | World History
Headings: Suburbanization in the 1950s
Suburbanization in the 1950s
The Baby Boom
Creating Suburbia
Popular Culture Glamorized Suburban Life

Content: to get married, have a family, own a car and own a house. For me to own a home in my 20s — I thought that was the greatest thing.” Members of the white middle-class remember moving to suburbia as a time of “joyful acquisition.” The postwar economic boom, accompanied by the ease with which one could obtain a house in the suburbs, made it simple for many middle-class families to embark on a quest for the American dream. Sources: Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life by Steven Mintz
The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 by John Patrick Diggins
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America by Lynn Spigel