All of the following changes were underway during the 1950s or were clearly
evident at the end of that decade EXCEPT?
O Television moved from a rare home entertainment feature to something present in
almost every home of the nation; there were six TV stations in 1946 and 442 by 1956.
O Highly popular folk singers began to criticize the military establishment, the honesty of
corporation ethics, the government attack on the youth drug culture, and other
controversial topics; their record sales made these same protesters very wealthy
individuals.
O Intellectuals criticized the conformity of American life in books like Sloan Wilson's The
Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1955)or David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd (1950).
OTV changed both religion and sports as televangelists like the respected Billy Graham
and Rev. Fulton J. Sheen took to the airways while baseball teams like Giants and
Dodgers move to western cities and broadcast to millions instead of a few thousand
in small stadiums.
Elvis Presley personally changed popular music by bringing African American music to
the baby boomers in the form of "rock 'n roll."