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On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...
On September 16, 1965, Cesar Chavez stood before a gathering of farmworkers in a dusty hall in Delano, California, and called for a vote. Eight...
In 2008, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande faced a uncomfortable truth: operating rooms filled with the most educated professionals on earth were making preventable mistakes. Not...
In the summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin faced an impossible task: organize the largest demonstration in American history in just eight weeks. Working from a...
In December 1995, Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, made a decision his colleagues called reckless. He pointed the Hubble...
On December 5, 1955, forty thousand Black commuters in Montgomery, Alabama, woke before dawn and did something extraordinary — they walked. The day before, Rosa...
On September 20, 1973, more than 30,000 spectators packed the Houston Astrodome for a tennis match that carried the weight of something far bigger than...
On February 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub near Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory and announced to the lunch crowd that he and...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape pickers in Delano, California, walked off the fields. Led by Larry Itliong, these workers from the Agricultural Workers Organizing...
In the winter of 1960, Diane Nash and dozens of Fisk University students sat down at segregated lunch counters across downtown Nashville. They ordered coffee....
In the summer of 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the gates of her backyard in Potomac, Maryland, and invited children with intellectual disabilities to swim,...
On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...
On June 30, 1966, Pauli Murray sat in a Washington, D.C. hotel conference room, watching government officials dismiss yet another resolution calling for the Equal...
In September 1973, the Soviet KGB seized a hidden copy of a manuscript that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had spent nearly a decade writing in secret. His...
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 July 11, 1958, Caroline County Sheriff R. Garnett Brooks entered the Loving home in Central Point, Virginia, at two o'clock in the morning. He...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at...
Long before television crews descended on Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson had been walking. Since the 1930s, she had gone door to door across Dallas...
On the evening of July 18, 1976, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci mounted the uneven bars inside the Montreal Forum. The Romanian gymnast, trained since age six...
On December 23, 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray stood over twenty-three-year-old Richard Herrick in an operating room at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and attempted...
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at a desk in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by senators, congressmen, and...
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon to face Jimmy Connors, the brash defending champion whom oddsmakers favored heavily. Ashe...
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...
On February 28, 1951, thirteen parents in Topeka, Kansas filed a lawsuit in federal court that would reshape the nation. Their complaint named the Board...