Time Marched On!
1954-- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished.
1955 The Vietnam War begins
1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik, a satellite
1958 -- National Defense Education Act - provided assistance to state and local school systems for strengthening instruction in science, mathematics, foreign languages, and other critical subjects; improvement of state statistical services; guidance, counseling, and testing services and training institutes higher education student loans and fellowships experimentation and dissemination of information on more effective use of television motion picture, and related media for education purposes; and vocational education for technical occupations, such as data processing, necessary to the national defense.