The Decade You Were Born: The 50s

If you were born in the '50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th Century - the rise of the middle class. Millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own. A building boom was on. This was the decade where people built bomb shelters. If you were born in the early fifties you are a Baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.