aphakia Aphakia literally means absence of crystalline lens from the eye. However, from the optical point of view, it may be considered a condition in which the lens is absent from the pupillary area. Aphakia produces a high degree of hypermetropia. Causes 1. Congenital absence of lens. It is a rare condition. 2. Surgical aphakia occurring after removal of lens is the commonest presentation. 3. Aphakia due to absorption of lens matter is noticed rarely after trauma in children. 4. Traumatic extrusion of lens from the eye also constitutes a rare cause of aphakia. 5. Posterior dislocation of lens in vitreous causes optical aphakia. Optics of aphakic eye Following optical changes occur after removal of crystalline lens: 1.
The SCLC was officially inaugurated in Atlanta on January 10-11, 1957, and a follow-up meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, several weeks later, on February 14. Early Years From
It also led to the formation in 1957 of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in Atlanta, Ga. This was presided over by a local black minister, Martin Luther King, Jr. As SCLC head, King would later become a central leader in the larger civil rights movement.A major incident in 1960 led to the founding of another important organization and expanded the movement's participants to include college-age blacks.he civil rights movement centered on the American South. That was where the African American population was concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and the political and legal processes was most blatant.