CHARLOTTE’S

WEB
1950’S HISTORY
 History of When was Charlotte’s Web published?
• Charlotte’s Web was published on October 15, 1952.

Charlotte’s
Web Who is the author of Charlotte’s Web?
• E.B White wrote Charlotte’s Web when he was 53 years
old.

It took E.B. White three years to finish writing Charlotte’s

Web. The barn in the story is based off of White’s barn
that he owned in Maine.
E.B White
• Writer E.B. White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mount
Vernon, New York.
• His parents named him Elwyn Brooks White, but he did
not appreciate the name. "I never liked Elwyn. My
mother just hung it on me because she'd run out of
names, I was her sixth child.”
• As a child, Elwyn had stage fright, but that didn’t stop
him from writing poems and stories.
• He wrote three children’s books: Charlotte’s Web,
Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan
• E.B White passed away October 15, 1985
Presidents

President Harry S. Truman President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1945- 1953 1953-1961
 Korean War
• Dates: 1950-1953
• Ms. O’Neill’s grandpa, Bill O’Neill
fought in the Korean war when he was
18 years old.
Start of the • May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education voted to
end segregation in public schools

Civil Rights
Movement

• December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her

seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Fashion of
the 1950’s
Music

Louis Armstrong singing

“When The Saints Go Marching In”
along with playing the trumpet.
 Movies, TV, Computers
• Disney Came out with its 12 movie: • Color TV did not become common until the
– Cinderella-1950 1960’s

– Alice in Wonderland-1951 • Not everyone had a TV in their house

– Peter Pan-1953 • Most people had radios to get the news
• The price of a movie at the movie theater • There were no video games
was $0.45

• Household computers weren’t invented

until the 1980’s
• Charlotte’s Web was typed on a typewriter
 Toys
• Hula Hoop
• Frisbee
• Radio Flyer Wagons
• BB Gun
Children’s
Books
Why do you think people are still
reading Charlotte’s Web 70 years
later?