What was the height of the cold war

Historians points out that the cold war reached its height during the Cuban crisis of 1962, when both superpowers, USA vs Soviet union achieved mutually assured destruction, known as MUD.

the Cuban crisis basically resulted from the soviet union placing its nuclear arsenals in Cuba territory, in retaliation of the USA pacing its arsenals in European Nato countries such as Turkey.  could have any of the country overreacted, it would have resulted in another war; This time,all sides  loaded with weapons of mass destruction, and the catastrophe would have been worse than have even been witnessed in history.

Height of the Cold War. Low-level photograph of nuclear missile construction site at San Cristobal, Cuba, 25 Oct 1962. The Kennedy presidency was an era of unprecedented tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Unio

The Freedom riders were a group of white and black American citizens who rode buses across the Deep South in protest of segregated bus policies. They intentionally broke segregation laws as a means of peaceful protest. Their goal was to ultimately get rid of segregated facilities across the southern states.

They were true American heroes because they remained nonviolent even though they were physically attacked. At one point during their rides in 1961, their bus was set on fire by an angry mob. Despite all of this torment, these individuals continued on their journey and refused to retaliate with violence.