Under the supervision of a health care professional, Aquacel Ag may be used for the management of: 1  wounds as an effective barrier to bacterial penetration to help reduce infection; 2  partial thickness (second degree) burns;
Background: On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.
The modern civil rights movement began in the 1950s. In 1955, a black woman in Alabama named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. For this act of protest, Parks was arrested.