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19 illustrations — Modern-day illustrations from current events and culture
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
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On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash stood on the steps of Nashville's courthouse and looked Mayor Ben West in the eye. The twenty-two-year-old Fisk University...
On May 4, 1994, the city of São Paulo, Brazil, came to a standstill. Three million mourners filled the streets to say goodbye to Ayrton...
On September 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla stood in the stairwell of the World Trade Center's South Tower with a bullhorn in hand and a lifetime...
On October 9, 2012, a masked gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, and asked one question: "Who is Malala?" Fifteen-year-old...
On December 10, 1996, in Stockholm's Concert Hall, the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored her for...
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 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...
For fifty years, Nicholas Winton said nothing. In the winter of 1938-1939, the young British stockbroker had traveled to Prague and organized the rescue of...
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...
On September 26, 1983, just after midnight, Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat at his post inside the Serpukhov-15 bunker south of Moscow. Suddenly, the...
In 2008, surgeon Atul Gawande stood before the World Health Organization with an audacious claim: a simple two-minute checklist could prevent thousands of surgical deaths...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lifted US Airways Flight 1549 off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with 155 souls aboard. Ninety seconds...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers across Southeast Asia, and every modern drug was failing. The Chinese government turned to a quiet, determined...
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...
On the morning of February 28, 1953, Francis Crick strode into the Eagle pub near Cambridge University and declared to the lunchtime crowd that he...
On August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and told the...