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On the evening of October 20, 1968, the Olympic marathon in Mexico City was long over. Mamo Wolde of Ethiopia had crossed the finish line...
In 1951, fourteen-year-old James Harrison lay in a hospital bed in New South Wales, Australia, recovering from major chest surgery that required thirteen liters of...
On October 20, 1968, seventy-five runners launched into the Olympic marathon through the thin air of Mexico City. The altitude — over 7,300 feet —...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up...
On August 28, 1963, Dorothy Height stood on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. She was surrounded by the most...
In 1957, Dorothy Height stepped into the presidency of the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C., inheriting an organization founded by Mary McLeod...
In 1937, a twenty-five-year-old social worker named Dorothy Height walked into a meeting at the Harlem YWCA and met Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison walked into an Australian Red Cross Blood Service center in Sydney and rolled up his sleeve for the...