Ken+Middleton

Middleton, Ken. "American Women Through Time: 1950-1959." //Middle Tennessee State University//. Web. Fall 2010. [].

“Barbara Johns and other high school students organize a strike in Prince Edward County, Virginia. This strike will lead to Dorothy Davis v. Prince Edward County School Board, one of the cases decided in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954.”

“Barbara McClintock discovers mobile genetic elements in plants.”

“Brownie Wise is appointed general sales manager of Tupperware Home Parties.”

“//I Love Lucy// premiers on CBS.” “Virginia Apgar develops and introduces the Apgar Score, a system for rating a newborn's pulse, respiration, muscle tone, color and reflexes.” “Maria Goeppert Mayer and Hans D. Jensen publish //Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure//. In 1963, Mayer and Jensen will share the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work.”

“Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparks a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system.”

“WHER: The First All-Girl Radio Station in The World.” “Autherine Lucy enrolls at the University of Alabama after more than three years of court action.” “Chien-Shiung Wu's experiments prove that parity is not conserved in nuclear beta decay. Although Chien-Shiung Wu did not win the Nobel Prize, she is featured in Sharon Bertsch McGrayne's [|Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries] (1993).”

“Dorothy Height becomes president of the National Council of Negro Women.”