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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...
In May 1952, in a basement laboratory at King's College London, Rosalind Franklin aimed a beam of X-rays at a strand of DNA and waited....
On the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
On October 16, 1969, fifty-seven thousand fans packed Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, to witness something the sports world had declared impossible. The New...
On May 2, 1963, hundreds of Black children filed out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing hymns and walking straight toward waiting...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a controversial decision. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, he pointed the Hubble...
On November 19, 1969, Pelé stepped to the penalty spot at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Over 65,000 fans held their breath. The striker...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years, overcome multiple...
In 1969, Random House published a memoir that would reshape American literature. Maya Angelou's *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* told the world what...
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London City Hall....
On December 23, 1954, Ronald Herrick did something no healthy person had ever done before. He lay down on an operating table at Peter Bent...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
On the morning of September 15, 1963, four young girls stood in the basement lounge of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, straightening their...
On the morning of May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister nearly stayed home. Wind gusted across the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, and the twenty-five-year-old...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Japanese-American artist Makoto Fujimura was in his studio in lower Manhattan when the Twin Towers fell. Ash and...
In the weeks after September 11, 2001, the air in Lower Manhattan still carried the acrid smell of smoke and pulverized concrete. Japanese-American artist Makoto...
In 1955, from a dairy farm called Andalusia outside Milledgeville, Georgia, a young Catholic woman named Flannery O'Connor published a short story collection that disturbed...
Makoto Fujimura's painting studio sat in lower Manhattan, near the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, when the towers collapsed, ash and pulverized concrete...
On October 3, 1996, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Wisława Szymborska of Kraków, Poland, praising her poetry's "ironic precision." What...