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27 illustrations — Modern-day illustrations from current events and culture
In November 1968, Shirley Chisholm stood before supporters in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, having just won election to the United States Congress — the first Black...
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On 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 and...
On September 2, 1960, in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a young woman from Clarksville, Tennessee crouched in the starting blocks of the 100-meter final. Wilma Rudolph...
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 September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium and did what only a handful of pitchers in baseball history have...
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...
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...
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
On September 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley stood beside the open casket of her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ on...
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through the doors of William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, flanked by four federal marshals. She...
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 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...
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue Brown v. Board of Education of...
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 lifted off from New York's LaGuardia Airport with 155 souls aboard, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. Barely...
In 1969, Maya Angelou published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what...
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 1944, Pauli Murray graduated first in her class from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. She applied to Harvard Law School for...
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly stood and did something unprecedented — they declared that humanity had defeated smallpox forever. A disease...
On August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and did exactly...
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...
On the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested...
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 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Before...
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...