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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 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 the morning of February 28, 1953, Francis Crick burst into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and announced to the lunchtime crowd that he...
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford stepped off a city bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing a crisp black-and-white dress her...
On September 25, 1957, nine Black teenagers walked into Little Rock's Central High School under the protection of twelve hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne...
On the night of September 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted into violence. Thousands of rioters hurled bricks, fired guns, and overturned cars...
On September 30, 1962, roughly 150 farm workers and their families crowded into a hall in Fresno, California, for a gathering that would reshape American...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Days earlier, eight white clergymen...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape workers walked off the vineyards of Delano, California. Led by Larry Itliong, they refused to keep harvesting table grapes...
On May 4, 1994, three million mourners lined the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, as a funeral procession carried the body of Ayrton Senna to...
On January 30, 1956, a stick of dynamite exploded on the front porch of Martin Luther King Jr.'s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama. His wife Coretta...
In Selma, Alabama, in early 1965, only about two percent of eligible Black citizens in Dallas County were registered to vote. The barrier was not...
Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field...
On the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested...
In December 1995, Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, made a decision that baffled his colleagues. He pointed the Hubble...
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 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...
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...
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...
On December 7, 1996, Wisława Szymborska stood before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture. The Polish poet — so private she...
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat in the President's Room of the U.S. Capitol, the same ornate chamber where Abraham Lincoln had...
On April 14, 2003, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project — a thirteen-year international effort to map the entire human genetic code....
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D.C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New...
On the evening of September 10, 1960, sixty-nine runners lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome. Among them stood Abebe Bikila, a twenty-eight-year-old member...