Later that summer there is a huge race riot in Chicago in protest of integrated housing. One thousand cops are sent to the Trumball Park apartments. University of Chicago archeologists unearth a 10,000 year-old Native American settlement in Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. Eisenhower is president. Civil rights actions escalate.
Blacks begin a bus boycott in Baton Rouge.
McCarthyism runs rampant. The Screen Actors Guilds bans communists from membership. Dylan Thomas dies. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit becomes the first woman and first Indian to head the United Nations. Ella Fitzgerald is voted Downbeat's most popular musician.