Help with Flannery O'Connor's revelation?

Question

Does anyone know what time period it was meant to be in? It was obviously after slaves were freed but before they were socially accepted. What would I properly call this time period?

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I think the thing (or one of them anyway) that makes Flannery O'Connor's books and stories seem so bizarre and off-kilter is that they are meant to take place generally around the time she was writing them, which give them an arcane but contemporary feel. I would place them (including Revelation) as taking place in the period from the late 40s through the early 60s - I guess you could call that post-war, pre-Civil Rights America?