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Christ knew what dwelt within human nature, possessed a consciousness of self that transcends our limited awareness.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing a Dodgers uniform with the number 42 on his back....
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stood before the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Months earlier, the Daughters of the...
On May 29, 1851, a tall, weathered woman rose from the pews of the Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio. The Women's Rights Convention had...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stepped to a microphone on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Weeks earlier, the Daughters of the...
In October 1772, a young enslaved woman named Phillis Wheatley stood before a panel of eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas...
In January 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Marian Anderson permission to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., solely because she was...
In the autumn of 1772, eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock — gathered to examine a young...
In 1944, the men of the 332nd Fighter Group arrived in the European Theater carrying a burden no white squadron ever bore. Trained at Tuskegee...
In January 1843, Dorothea Dix stood before the Massachusetts state legislature and read aloud words that made grown men flinch. For eighteen months, this retired...
In the spring of 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. led the 332nd Fighter Group on bomber escort missions across Nazi-occupied Europe from Ramitelli Airfield...
On a cold Sunday in March 1841, Dorothea Dix stepped into the East Cambridge jail to teach a Sunday school class. What she found changed...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing the number 42 on his Dodgers jersey....
In the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group — known as the Red Tails for the distinctive crimson paint on...
In March 1841, Dorothea Dix walked into the East Cambridge Jail to teach a Sunday school class and encountered something that changed her life. Mentally...
On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...
In 1761, a seven-year-old girl arrived in Boston Harbor aboard a slave ship called the Phillis. She was given the ship's name as her own,...
In May 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Some attendees urged the convention's president, Frances Gage, not...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted onto the diamond at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball in...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
In May 1851, several ministers at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, argued that women were too delicate and intellectually inferior to deserve equal...