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17 illustrations — Modern-day illustrations from current events and culture
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at the All England Club to face Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon final. Connors was...
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On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis tucked an apple, a toothbrush, and two books into his backpack before walking to the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano shuffled to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The man who had sprinted across the court ten years earlier,...
On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton lay on her surfboard at Tunnels Beach on Kauai's North Shore, her left arm dangling...
In 1940, Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely in Clarksville, Tennessee — the twentieth of twenty-two children. By age four, polio had paralyzed her left leg....
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and did the most costly thing a...
In February 1944, Nazi soldiers raided a narrow house on Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands, arresting the ten Boom family for hiding Jews. Corrie ten Boom...
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa, his fist raised, his wife Winnie's hand...
On September 15, 1963, nineteen sticks of dynamite exploded beneath the east side of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast tore...
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...
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...
In 1941, as German bombs fell on London, a former atheist sat before a BBC microphone at Broadcasting House and made a startling argument. C.S....
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...
In 1969, Random House published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou's unflinching memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South. The...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and walked straight into a wall of state troopers....
On July 29, 1954, a sixty-two-year-old Oxford professor named J.R.R. Tolkien saw his life's work finally reach the public when Allen & Unwin published *The...
On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...