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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....
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...
By 1955, Flannery O'Connor had already spent five years fighting the disease that killed her father. Diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in late 1950 at...
In 1955, Flannery O'Connor published *A Good Man Is Hard to Find*, a short story collection that scandalized readers across the American South. Writing from...
On February 11, 1990, thousands gathered outside Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa, straining for a glimpse of something many had stopped believing possible....
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...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
On December 7, 1996, Wisława Szymborska stood before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture. The Polish poet — so private she...
In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D.C., alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over...
Before Dolores Huerta became one of the most important labor organizers in American history, she was a schoolteacher in Stockton, California. Every morning, she watched...
On April 27, 1994, seventy-five-year-old Nelson Mandela stood in a queue of ordinary citizens outside Ohlange High School in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, waiting to cast a...
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
In 1967, as ACLU attorney Bernard Cohen prepared to argue before the United States Supreme Court, he asked his client Richard Loving if there was...
In 1937, a twenty-five-year-old social worker named Dorothy Height walked into a meeting at the Harlem YWCA and met Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of...
On August 28, 1963, Dorothy Height stood on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. She was surrounded by the most...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
In 1988, a retired stockbroker named Nicholas Winton sat quietly in the studio audience of the BBC program *That's Life!*, hosted by Esther Rantzen. He...
On April 14, 2003, scientists announced what thirteen years of painstaking work had finally achieved — the Human Genome Project was complete. Researchers from twenty...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus on Cleveland Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as...
In 1957, Dorothy Height stepped into the presidency of the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C., inheriting an organization founded by Mary McLeod...
On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King walked onto the floor of the Houston Astrodome before 30,472 spectators and an estimated 90 million television viewers...