Meh, with all the money-making opportunities you just hire half of the slack-jaw class to kill the other half if necessary.
On the other hand, it’s less likely you’d be shot.
Actually shootings in the major cities and the South were quite common in the 1950s. So were knifings and violent assaults. Crime has decreased since that time. It’s only the media coverage which makes it seem as it has increased,
There is one more thing that was very different back then - child birth. Husbands were expected to wait outside in the waiting room with other expectant dads, and not get in the way of the doctors. Ditto for the wives. My mother was put under when she had me, and remembers nothing of it. No coaching, no birthing classes, definitely no pictures!
Not according to the FBI crime reports cited immediately above your post. Of course, homicide rates went WAAAAAY down after peaking in the early 1990s, which many people feel is directly attributable to lead poisoning … and it’s hard to argue with the numbers.
On the other hand… 2 weeks of rest and relaxation in the hospital, with nurses teaching you how to take care of your baby and tending to them all night while you slept. Bliss!
And forceps too!
You still can in many states where they can & will fire anyone for no reason at all. Today, they’d just say “You are not working out, you’re terminated.”
Not in any workplace I knew of or was in, of course I didn’t start working until the late 1960’s but that sort of sexual harassment was considered very rude and not professional.
Mind you, harassment of new employees was common, and if you happened to be a minority it could be cruel.
I saw little talk of religion back then. People might ask what Church you went to, but altho nearly everyone had some sort of Protestant church they attended, it was mostly social. Mind you, this was California. Texas was likely different.
Smoking was intense, however, that would bother me.
I don’t think married nurses were banned in 1952. Some of my elementary school teachers were also married in the 40s. And married women could certainly own property (at least in Pennsylvania). But the rest of what Broomstick said about unequal pay and so on is accurate.
I would bring along the baseball encyclopedia, the NFL history and the like and break the sports syndicate. I would try to reproduce as much of late 20th c. mathematics as I could recall and publish it, although that wouldn’t pay that much. I would buy as much IBM stock as I could.
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I don’t want to live in an Ohio suburb.
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Since I rely on 21st century medical technology, I’m in trouble wherever I end up (although I could possibly survive ok in the UK or some advanced Scandinavian country).
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I don’t want to work. I will just curl up and read for the rest of my life.
Thank you. 
I’d think that this could be very risky, as you would need to provide some degree of corroborating information in order to be taken seriously. Very early on the authorities are going to want to know how you know what you know, and what else you know, and I don’t think that any explanation involving time travel would be acceptable.
No warnings on assassinations! Don’t be silly.
Indeed. Not only would that warrant unwanted attention from law enforcement, we don’t want to be changing the course of history, or else what we think we know and can profit from could change too. Sorry, Kennedys, those are just the breaks.
It could be said that we might be changing history anyway, but that’s not necessarily true. Maybe history as we know it happened because we had gone back in time. We just never knew it before.
Transparent aluminum!
Taking it as read that I (like everyone else in the thread) have taken back stockmarket/racing/real estate/resource/technology/general investment tips along with things like a decent, sturdy laptop, e-book reader, a DSLR camera and modern medicines (or instructions for their manufacture), and have become extremely (but not ostentatiously) wealthy:
I’d invest some of my wealth into filling in my “backstory” for the era - for example, having it look like I was involved in some hush-hush things during The War which I’m not at liberty to discuss (Official Secrets Act and all that, old chap), which would help avoid questions of why I don’t have any “War Stories” to share or don’t get references that anyone who was in the military during the war (most men of my age) would based on their common experiences fighting Ze Germans or the Japanese.
I’d also have one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of military small arms as the equipment was sold off on the cheap following WWII and Korea.
After a few years I’d start quietly using my wealth (and associated influence) to nudge things in certain directions. Ensuring equal pay for equal work, for example. Or perhaps something could be worked out vis-a-vis Cuba. A few key scientific developments might come a little earlier or be more advanced than might otherwise be the case. Longer term, perhaps a few countries might decide they’d rather stay as part of the British/French Empires, but in a free association rather than as a colony, and so forth.
Otherwise, given that my shrewd investments would allow me to live the wealthy playboy lifestyle, I’d probably spend my time travelling around the world in my private flying boat and photographing (with with my DSLR and a period high-end 35mm colour film SLR) exotic places and things and generally exploring the world as it was at the time.
Autographs.
I would love to get autographs of famous people of the time like Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy, James Dean, Lucy and Dezi, Babe Ruth (he was still alive), heck all those “stars” of television, movies, sports, and politics.
Then the pictures. Imagine having several people with cameras surrounding the area where JFK was shot and getting absolute proof of what happened? Or being in Roswell New Mexico where the supposed “UFO” crashed?
And then somehow stop some of the worse tragedies. Prevent Martin Luther King from being assassinated. Prevent Emmit Tiller’s murder.
In 1952?
The incarceration rate is now maybe five times higher. I can’t find a breakdown by race, but my guess is that the increase in the African-American incarceration rate between 1952 and today is greater than the overall increase. So your concern here is unlikely to be an issue.
While there has been social progress since 1952, it’s not so all on the one side as implied here.
One example there might be abortion. Yes, it was illegal. But the number of hospitals where physicians did abortions was likely far greater.
It all comes down your romantic life, and that is going to vary for each person.
I don’t know how this whole time loop will work, but I would take by earnings from gambling and stock investments and somehow leave them for my family and myself in the future.
I’d also be born 4 years after I got there, so I’m not sure what to do in regard to that. What would happen if I did something to influence my own life?
If I had to go back to 1952 and live from then on, I’d take back the formula for Viagra.