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  • Semipalatinsk Test Site, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day in Kazakhstan)
    Nov, 1955
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    RDS-37

    Semipalatinsk Test Site, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day in Kazakhstan)
    Nov, 1955

    Nevertheless, the Cold War escalated during his presidency. When the Soviet Union successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in late November 1955, Eisenhower, against the advice of Dulles, decided to initiate a disarmament proposal to the Soviets. In an attempt to make their refusal more difficult, he proposed that both sides agree to dedicate fissionable material away from weapons toward peaceful uses, such as power generation. This approach was labeled "Atoms for Peace".




  • Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 27, 1955
    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

    Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 27, 1955

    In August 1955, black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with a young white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi. On November 27, 1955, four days before she would make her stand on the bus, Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery that addressed this case as well as the recent murders of the activists George W. Lee and Lamar Smith. The featured speaker was T. R. M. Howard, a black civil rights leader from Mississippi who headed the Regional Council of Negro Leadership.




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