The Year is 1955

1. In 1955 the cost of a first class stamp in the United States was $0.03.

2. In 1955, Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

3. On December 1, 1955 Rosa L. Parks refused to give up her seat to go to the back of the bus beginning the Montgomery bus boycott.

4. December 5, 1955, the AFL and CIO merge together to become the AFL-CIO.