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On April 27, 1994, South Africans lined up by the millions to vote in their first fully democratic election. In Soweto, in Durban, in Cape...
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 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...
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...