Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the postwar Baby Boom and other factors, families in the '50s began moving to the suburbs. Levittown in Long Island, New ...
The 1950s did not just introduce new products, they introduced new archetypes, from the gleaming family car to the picture-perfect bride and the impeccably groomed suburban mother. Almost overnight, ...
Notably, African Americans didn't see the same benefits from the GI Bill, and it would take some years before racial and ethnic minorities broadly shifted to the suburbs. Here's what it was like to ...