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In 1969, Maya Angelou published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano shuffled to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The man who had sprinted across the court ten years earlier,...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., under a late-summer sky. They had marched for jobs...
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 the morning of September 15, 1963, four young girls stood in the basement lounge of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, straightening their...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. almost did not return to Memphis. His first visit in late March had ended in violence —...
On the morning of September 15, 1963, in the basement of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a Sunday School class opened its Youth...
In 1969, Random House published a memoir that would reshape American literature. Maya Angelou's *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* told the world what...
On September 15, 1963, nineteen sticks of dynamite exploded beneath the east side of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast tore...
On September 15, 1963, a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members exploded beneath the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls...
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 April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Before...
On April 12, 1955, hundreds of scientists and reporters packed the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr....
During the darkest years of World War II, while German bombs fell on British cities and the outcome of civilization hung in the balance, an...
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium and delivered the words millions of...
On April 27, 1994, seventy-five-year-old Nelson Mandela stood in a queue of ordinary citizens outside Ohlange High School in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, waiting to cast a...
In 1969, Random House published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou's unflinching memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South. The...
On the evening of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had...
When the first volume of *The Lord of the Rings* appeared in London bookshops on July 29, 1954, it bore only J.R.R. Tolkien's name on...
On August 28, 1963, a Baptist preacher from Atlanta stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and did what Black preachers have always done...
On July 29, 1954, a sixty-two-year-old Oxford professor named J.R.R. Tolkien saw his life's work finally reach the public when Allen & Unwin published *The...