Home, hearth and heretics.

Looks back at American life in the 1950s and especially events that took place during 1953. The war in Korea; Joe McCarthy's anti-Communist antics; America's boom that was simply unprecedented until now; Huge output by American factories that were producing half the goods and services in the world; Increase in the number of televisions; The 1956 Interstate Highway Act; Rosa Parks; More. INSET: One child's simple justice (`Brown v Board of Education')..