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Miriam Pratt is a human born in the late months of 1954. The sex at birth is presumed to be female.
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This record was created on September 27, 2023 on The Population Project. It hasn't been edited since then.
The Context
What was the context in the United States of America in 1954?
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a major victory for the civil rights movement. The U.S. conducted Operation Castle, testing thermonuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, demonstrating the continued escalation of nuclear capabilities. The McCarthy era reached its peak, with Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist hearings stirring fear and controversy, before his eventual censure by the Senate.
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