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are among the many factors making the American Dream increasingly out of reach for the middle class. GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s.

Ford Library But all was not well for African Americans in the 1950s. Millions had returned home from World War II to find themselves excluded from the American dream. In an age of rising ...