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On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at the Montgomery Fair department...
On May 27, 1958, Ernest Green walked across the stage at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and became the first Black student to...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and walked straight into a wall of state troopers....
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, arms full of...
On April 11, 1962, the New York Mets lost their very first game. They would lose 119 more that season, finishing 40-120 — the worst...
When the first volume of *The Lord of the Rings* appeared in London bookshops on July 29, 1954, it bore only J.R.R. Tolkien's name on...
On May 2, 1963, the doors of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama swung open, and a stream of children poured into the streets....
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn, slipped on a pair of sunglasses, and walked toward...
On the evening of October 20, 1968, the Olympic marathon in Mexico City was long over. Mamo Wolde of Ethiopia had crossed the finish line...
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched...
On August 28, 1963, a Baptist preacher from Atlanta stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and did what Black preachers have always done...
In 1941, as German bombs still fell on London, a BBC producer named James Welch sat reading C.S. Lewis's *The Problem of Pain* and had...
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn for the first day of school...
On July 29, 1954, a sixty-two-year-old Oxford professor named J.R.R. Tolkien saw his life's work finally reach the public when Allen & Unwin published *The...
On the morning of November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges climbed out of a federal car and walked toward the front doors of William Frantz...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street in Greensboro,...
Imagine, if you will, the moment when Abram stood at the threshold of everything he had ever known. The sun dipped low on the horizon, casting a golden glow over the fields that had been his home, the village bustling...
On July 20, 1968, one thousand athletes with intellectual disabilities stood on the infield of Soldier Field in Chicago, blinking under the summer sun. Most...
On July 18, 1976, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci mounted the uneven bars at the Montreal Forum and performed a routine that lasted roughly forty seconds. When...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison walked into an Australian Red Cross Blood Service center in Sydney and rolled up his sleeve for the...
In the sweltering summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin worked from a cramped office at 170 West 130th Street in Harlem, a telephone receiver pressed to...
Shortly after midnight on September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone in the commander's chair at Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet military bunker south...