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On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford stepped off a city bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing a crisp black-and-white dress her...
On September 25, 1957, nine Black teenagers walked into Little Rock's Central High School under the protection of twelve hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne...
On the night of September 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted into violence. Thousands of rioters hurled bricks, fired guns, and overturned cars...
On September 30, 1962, roughly 150 farm workers and their families crowded into a hall in Fresno, California, for a gathering that would reshape American...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Days earlier, eight white clergymen...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape workers walked off the vineyards of Delano, California. Led by Larry Itliong, they refused to keep harvesting table grapes...
In Selma, Alabama, in early 1965, only about two percent of eligible Black citizens in Dallas County were registered to vote. The barrier was not...
Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field...
On the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested...
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D.C., alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus on Cleveland Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as...
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat in the President's Room of the U.S. Capitol, the same ornate chamber where Abraham Lincoln had...
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D.C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New...
In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
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 the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
On December 5, 1955, four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, more...
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...