African American women were largely excluded from the idealized image of 1950s domesticity portrayed in popular culture. Most women who fantasize about going back to this decade are white ...

Sterilization abuse of African American women by the white medical establishment reached its height in the 1950s and 1960s. Women who went into the hospital to deliver children often came out ...

and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s. Hayden came to ...