Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley gets mobbed by girls backstage of the Milton Berle Show in Burbank, California, 1956. (Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Rock and roll singer Elvis Presley poses for a portrait in 1956.

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The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States. At this time the U.S. economy was booming and more (mostly white) Americans could afford new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods. But the 1950s also saw great conflict and division, from the nascent civil rights movement to the crusade against communism at home and abroad in the Korean War.

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