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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...
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 20, 1973, twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean King walked into the Houston Astrodome to face fifty-five-year-old Bobby Riggs before 30,472 spectators and an estimated 90...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University — Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond — walked...
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...
In the 1960s, most Americans with intellectual disabilities lived hidden from public view — tucked away in overcrowded state institutions or kept quietly at home....
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...
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 March 7, 1965, six hundred men and women lined up two abreast at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They carried no weapons....
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon to face Jimmy Connors, the defending champion and overwhelming favorite. Connors was younger,...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat...
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn, slipped on a pair of sunglasses, and walked toward...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street in Greensboro,...
On the morning of 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...
On July 20, 1968, one thousand athletes with intellectual disabilities stood on the infield of Soldier Field in Chicago, blinking under the summer sun. Most...
In the summer of 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the gates of her backyard in Potomac, Maryland, and invited children with intellectual disabilities to swim,...
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon to face Jimmy Connors, the brash defending champion whom oddsmakers favored heavily. Ashe...
On September 20, 1973, more than 30,000 spectators packed the Houston Astrodome for a tennis match that carried the weight of something far bigger than...