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On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue Brown v. Board of Education of...
On a July night in 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies burst into a bedroom in Caroline County, Virginia, flashlights cutting through the darkness....
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 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 Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
In 1944, Pauli Murray graduated first in her class from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. She applied to Harvard Law School for...
In 1967, as ACLU attorney Bernard Cohen prepared to argue before the United States Supreme Court, he asked his client Richard Loving if there was...
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...
In June 1966, Pauli Murray sat among delegates at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., frustrated by...
On June 30, 1966, Pauli Murray sat in a Washington, D.C. hotel conference room, watching government officials dismiss yet another resolution calling for the Equal...
On July 11, 1958, Caroline County Sheriff R. Garnett Brooks entered the Loving home in Central Point, Virginia, at two o'clock in the morning. He...
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...
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at a desk in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by senators, congressmen, and...