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| 1950 |
| | | US sociologist David Riesman analyzes the American character in The Lonely Crowd | |
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| c. 1950 |
| | | Soweto begins to be built outside Johannesburg to segregate the city's black labour force | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Festival of Britain, on the south bank of the Thames in London, celebrates the end of wartime austerity | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The cult of Chairman Mao is officially encouraged in China, partly through steady publication of his works | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Eva Perón dies of cancer and achieves the status of a popular saint in Argentina | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Alfred Charles Kinsey completes his study of human sexuality with the publication of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Anglican vicar Chad Varah, using the crypt of a London church, sets up the first branch of what becomes the Samaritans | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The first Disneyland opens in California, an event watched on television by 90 million Americans | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Baptist pastor Martin Luther King leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man | |
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