In one study, propranolol at a maximum dosage of 60 mg per day in three divided doses for children weighing less than 77 lb (35 kg), and 120 mg per day in three divided doses for children weighing 77 lb or more, produced a reduction in headache frequency of two thirds (NNT = 1.5; 95% CI, 1.15 to 2.10).
The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. The modern Civil Rights Movement got its start in the 1950s as returning African-American veterans from World War II began demanding equal rights. The decade of the fifties also saw the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nonviolent protest movement.
The movement actually comprised a number of efforts on the local, state, and national levels, and included both Democrats and Republicans who championed such causes as tax reform, woman suffrage, political reform, industrial regulation, the minimum wage, the eight-hour work day, and workers' compensation.his movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the mighty current of change the group wanted to effect (and the location of the first meeting in July 1905).