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William J. Levitt
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Built new communities in the suburbs after WW2, using mass production techniques.
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Benjamin Spock
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Pediatrician and author of "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" (1946), which encouraged mothers to stay home with their children rather than work.
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Betty Freidan
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Feminist author; criticized limited roles for woman in her 1963 book. "The Feminine Mystique"
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J.D. Sallinger
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Author of 1952 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" which criticized 1950's pressure to conform.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Senator from Illinois and Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956 against Eisenhower.
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Richard M. Nixson
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37th President of the US 1969-1974; known for foreign policy toward soviet union and China and for his illegal acts he committed in the watergate affair that forced his resignation.
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Thurgood Marshall
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1st African American Supreme Court Justice; as a lawyer, won landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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