Microbeam radiotherapy experiments at IMBL. A promising experimental radiotherapy technique that uses finely divided synchrotron x-rays to destroy tumours without seriously affecting normal tissue is under investigation at the Australian Synchrotron. Around half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy.
Segregationists along with John Will Booth bombed Martin Luther King Jr's house on September 30, 1956. They bombed his house in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when Izola Curry stabbed him in the chest. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent.) In 1962, black student James Meredith was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross Barnett. (Meredith was later admitted.)