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1950s Teenagers FLKK

The above picture is of James Dean. He was the original greaser and encouraged some of the 1950s teenagers rebellion. Everyone copied him and that is what the government did to get money. They would take celebrities and create a fad that everyone would follow and make money from all the shopping. James Dean is wearing a leather jacket, his hair is grown out, and he is smoking a cigarette. He practically formed the greasers.


 * Teenagers of the 1950s drove cars more and even raced them, which was them rebelling against their parents.


 * The fashion from the 1940s and 30s changed for teens when it was the 1950s


 * Leather Jackets, listening to rock n' roll, smoking cigarettes, and growing your hair out were just some things that teenagers did to rebel


 * Teenagers started listening to Elvis and were told it was the devils music by their parents, but they just kept on rebelling


 * Teens were always out of their houses and they started to have sex before marrige, which was uncommon

Those are just some ways that teenagers of the 1950s rebelled from their parents and what they did.

The loss of innocence that many teenagers experienced was easily recognizable because the events that they occured in were not discrete. So their parents did whatever they could to stop them and the teenagers kept rebelling. They kept attending concerts, racing cars, going to parties, listening to rock n' roll, and pretty much rebelling. Teens were not the nice lovely child that they used to be and that changed in the 1950s because of rock n' roll and anything that encouraged them. My grandmother was a teenager during the 1950s and she told me that she did not rebel, but she did listen to rock n' roll. Her favorite rocker was Elvis she told me that she did attend some concerts by him. So my research has shown me that not everyone was rebel, but it did happen and the 1950s created the culture that made the base for what my genoration is today.

Goldberg, David E. "teenagers, post–World War II." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. //Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968//, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHrIX260&SingleRecord=True (accessed November 18, 2011).

This article above was about the what the teenagers did and how they acted in the 1950s. It explained that greasers were created by the actor James Dean who wore a leather jacket and rebelled. That is how the term greaser was created and who the greasers took after.

Sources

Goldberg, David E. "teenagers, post–World War II." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. //Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968//, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHrIX260&SingleRecord=True (accessed November 18, 2011).

Reef, Catherine. "childhood in the United States, 1946–1970." //Childhood in America,// Eyewitness History. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2002. //American History Online,// Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE52&iPin=EHCA0125&SingleRecord=True (accessed November 18, 2011).

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