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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...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat in the first row...
On March 16, 1968, twenty-four-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. flew low over the village of My Lai in South Vietnam's Quang Ngai Province. What...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...
On May 2, 1963, hundreds of Black children filed out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing hymns and walking straight toward waiting...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
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 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 March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano needed help just to reach the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach — the...
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 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 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...
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...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a...
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 the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...
On the morning of April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas. He was twenty-five years...
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...
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 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...
In the spring of 2002, the Arizona Cardinals offered their starting safety Pat Tillman a three-year, $3.6 million contract. By every measure of the world,...