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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 October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City wearing only black socks — no shoes....
On May 27, 1958, Ernest Green walked across the stage at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and became the first Black student to...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred men and women lined up two abreast at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They carried no weapons....
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
On October 1, 1962, James Meredith walked into the registrar's office at the University of Mississippi and enrolled as its first Black student. The night...
On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, alongside six hundred marchers demanding their right to vote....
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 December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at the Montgomery Fair department...
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 May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at...
On September 16, 1965, Cesar Chavez stood before a gathering of farmworkers in a dusty hall in Delano, California, and called for a vote. Eight...
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...
In the sweltering summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin worked from a cramped office at 170 West 130th Street in Harlem, a telephone receiver pressed to...
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...
In the summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin faced an impossible task: organize the largest demonstration in American history in just eight weeks. Working from a...
On February 28, 1951, thirteen parents in Topeka, Kansas filed a lawsuit in federal court that would reshape the nation. Their complaint named the Board...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape pickers in Delano, California, walked off the fields. Led by Larry Itliong, these workers from the Agricultural Workers Organizing...
Long before television crews descended on Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson had been walking. Since the 1930s, she had gone door to door across Dallas...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...