Describe the causes for the feelings of discontent that came to the surface during the 1950s

they may had felt happy and between sad at the same time

The correct to this open question is the following.

During the 1950s, the United States lived a period of growth that made many citizens move from the city to the suburbs because they wanted a better life. New highways, better roads and the use of credit allowed families to invest in better homes in the suburbs. However, at the same time, racial segregation was an important issue in most southern states. Many groups and civil rights movements raised their voice to demand changes to the many inequalities they considered is still existed between whites and blacks and other minorities.

Another important issue of the 1950s was the permanent tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, in which the USSR wanted to spread Communism to other countries and the US tried to stop it.