Answer: Most African-Americans Hispanics and Native Americans were denied a part in the prosperity of the 1950s. White flight(movement to the suburbs) increased the number of minorities who lived in dirty crowded slums. Urban renewal involved tearing down the rundown neighborhoods and constructing low-income housing.
while many enjoy prosperity and the 19 fifties and cluding more at leisure time critics said that the new economy stippled individualism also the new car culture which gave freedom to travel and to live away from work caused a decline in the inner cities and added pollution and traffic deaths to societies woes. 40% of women worked outside the home by 1960.
