A Force for Change
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A Force for Change

The Class of 1950

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Force for Change

The Class of 1950

About this book

Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans who came to campus and found segregation and racial stereotypes, even after some of them had fought a war for freedom. This mixture of students blended together on the college campuses of America in the late 1940s and exploded into the world in 1950. Journalist John Norberg's illuminating oral history allows members of Purdue University's Class of 1950 to tell their stories in their own words. "(This is) a narrative that will hold special interest for those with Purdue or West Lafayette ties, but its scope is broad enough to interest a wider population".

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Information

Publisher
Purdue University Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781557539502
Topic
History
Subtopic
Higher Education
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: “I wish you could turn back the clock”: Remembering how it was
  10. Chapter 2: “The loneliness is disappearing”: Some who added the feminine touch
  11. Chapter 3: “Times were very tough”: The Great Depression’s lifelong effects
  12. Chapter 4: “We had a ton of guys playing”: On the gridiron and the court
  13. Chapter 5: “I told her I’d give her a call”: Boy meets girl
  14. Chapter 6: “I was an aviation bug”: Some were flyboys
  15. Chapter 7: “Everybody was going”: Into the Army, Navy, and Marines
  16. Chapter 8: “Look at all those free people”: The African-American experience
  17. Chapter 9: “It was a fantastic time”: From radar through space
  18. Chapter 10: “Like riding a roller coaster down”: The night the bleachers collapsed
  19. Chapter 11: “We had a great wrestling team”: Hoosier hysteria goes to the mat
  20. Chapter 12: “I never did go home”: Students from faraway places
  21. Chapter 13: “Now it’s your turn”: From college to Korea
  22. Chapter 14: “They could do anything they wanted to”: College, careers, children, and careers
  23. Chapter 15: “Back home again in Indiana”: Memories of more Purdue athletes
  24. Appendix: Campus Maps
  25. Index