Usage Note: Native American is now fully established in American English as an equivalent of Indian, being acceptable in all contemporary contexts and preferred in many. It is especially appropriate as a term of respect used by outsiders, who may have concerns that Indian could cause offense by its association with longstanding cultural stereotypes.
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds.
The SCLC was a civil-rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr. It was made up of mostly southern blacks and aided in the massive campaigns of the civil rights movement such as the bus boycott. The group championed nonviolent passive resistance in order to gain equality among races.