Due to McCarthyism, Wright was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio executives in the 1950s, but, in 1950, starred as the teenager Bigger Thomas ( Wright was 42 ) in an Argentinian film version of Native Son.

Exploring the reasons Wright appeared to have little to say about the civil rights movement unfolding in the United States in the 1950s, historian Carol Polsgrove has gathered evidence of what his fellow writer Chester Himes called the " extraordinary pressure " Wright was under not to write about the American scene.

During the 1950s Wright grew more internationalist in outlook.

Wright died in 1970, his wife dying in the 1950s.

Jump was especially popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, through artists such as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, T-Bone Walker, Roy Milton, Billy Wright and Wynonie Harris.

In the 1950s British aviation historian and author Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith studied The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the Library of Congress, and Randolph's 1937 book, and concluded that reports of Whitehead making a successful flight in advance of the Wright brothers were fabrications.

CSL saw operations increase exponentially in the late 1950s with the opening of the expanded Saint Lawrence Seaway and the timely discovery and exploitation of some of the world's largest iron ore deposits on the Labrador Peninsula in Labrador City, Schefferville, and Mont Wright.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was involved in a dispute with C. Wright Mills over the nature of politics in the United States.

It has only been since the 1950s and 1960s that his critical reputation has revived — not least of all in connection with his probable influence on Frank Lloyd Wright.

The strip soon focused on three 1950s schoolfriends in their later, middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children ; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers ; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby.

Byrne was also a regular member of Walter Winterbottom's England team during the 1950s and was considered a possible captain of the national team after the retirement of the incumbent captain, Billy Wright.

Many British sculptors famous the 1950s and 1960s, but since forgotten, have been the subject of solo exhibitions at YSP including Lynn Chadwick, Austin Wright, Phillip King, Eduardo Paolozzi and Kenneth Armitage.

In the 1930s through the 1950s, carports were also being used by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian Houses ; an idea that he probably got from Griffin, a former associate.

Among the 1950s sociologists that are usually compared to Riesman and Whyte, is C. Wright Mills, author of White Collar: The American Middle Classes.

Probably the most legendary theatre organist of modern times, the late George Wright, was credited with saving the medium from certain demise in the 1950s and 60s, when he created a huge series of studio recordings which sold millions, as he was clever enough to have them included in the new stereo format used in early systems such as Zenith, Admiral and Magnavox.

All Saints ' Church, Bridle Road, was built in the 1950s by Rev Aubrey K W Wright and its design is of a very high quality.

The owners of the Spring Hill Estate, Newcombe and Asa Wright, hosted many visiting scientists in the 1950s and ' 60s, including the noted ornithologists David Snow and Barbara Snow, who made detailed studies of the Oilbirds and the very complex courtship dances of the White-bearded Manakin and the Golden-headed Manakin.

Charles Wright was born in 1940 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, before moving to Los Angeles in the early 1950s, playing guitar and singing in several doo-wop groups including the Turks, the Twilighters, the Shields and the Gallahads.

" Both were purchased in the 1950s with the help of Dare's brother, Blaine Wright.

Street prostitution first appeared in Balsall Heath during the 1950s.

The first mainframe computers, using firstly vacuum tubes and later transistors in the logic circuits, appeared in the 1940s and 1950s.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

MacLeod also appeared as the villain on TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Edwards's private-eye series, Peter Gunn.

Over time, during the 1950s and 1960s a variety of different brands of mechanical calculators appeared on the market.

By the 1950s surviving silent movie comedians could be pressed into service as Keystone Cops regardless of whether they appeared with the troupe authentically.

The first publication on diagnostic laparoscopy by Raoul Palmer appeared in the early 1950s, followed by the publication of Frangenheim and Semm.

Many of these titles appeared in the mid-to-late 1950s, but as the decades went by, more imitators surfaced and vanished, with titles such as Wild, Blast, Parody, Grin and Gag!

* Nemo, screen name of actor who appeared in Bollywood films from the 1930s through 1950s

In the 1950s, tabloid publications like Confidential appeared, specializing in the revelation of scandalous information about entertainment and political celebrities.

Although the first computer games appeared in the 1950s, they were based around vector displays, not analog video.

By 1960, after 400 years of colonial tyranny, there was not a single university in the entire territory To counter this backwardness, more overtly political organisations first appeared in the 1950s, and began to make organized demands for human and civil rights, initiating diplomatic campaigns throughout the world in their fight for independence.

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television.

Dodge ’ s first experiments with anything like a sport utility vehicle appeared in the late 1950s with a windowed version of their standard panel-truck-known as the Town Wagon.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

He was an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with acting teacher Stella Adler, and appeared on television and in summer stock.

She appeared in episodes of anthology television series in the 1950s and, in 1959, made a pilot for her series, The Joan Crawford Show,

Although the word hippies made isolated appearances during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the first clearly contemporary use of the term appeared in print on September 5, 1965, in the article, " A New Haven for Beatniks ", by San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon.

In the 1950s and 60s ( and, to lesser extent, currently ) a facial mole was known as a " beauty mark " when it appeared in certain spots on a woman ’ s face.

* Teddy-A stereotypical teddy boy who appeared mainly in the 1950s.

Modernism appeared on a broad front in the Norwegian poetry of the 1950s.

During the early days of television in the 1950s Minnelli appeared as a child guest on Art Linkletter's show and in 1959 sang and danced with Gene Kelly on his first television special.